The contribution of community service orders to the education and rehabilitation of offenders
The contribution of community service orders to the education and rehabilitation of offenders
The research undertaken examines the organisation of Community Service Orders in Wolverhampton in an attempt to assess the opportunities provided for the education and rehabilitation of the offenders. A description of its origins, its passage through Parliament and the Pilot Schemes for the Community Service Order is used to assess the likely consequences on the ability of the sentence to educate and rehabilitate the offender. The main body of the research concentrates on the operation of Community Service Orders within Wolverhampton. An investigation was made into the whole procedure, from the writing of the social enquiry report to the completion of the Community Service Order, to highlight firstly, the growing pressures that face those responsible for the Community Service Unit and, second, the subsequent reduction in the ability of those responsible to facilitate a planned educative content within the order. The recent case law and the introduction of Community Service Orders for 16 year olds are examined for their likely effects upon the education and rehabilitation of the offender. The research presented illustrated the fact that, because of the growing number of Community Service Orders, less consideration is being given to the quality of the placements for offenders and that as a consequence, the tasks performed by the offenders are becoming more punitive and less rehabilitive. Without an attempt to introduce at least a minimum standard for the placements used by Community Service Units, the opportunity to educate and rehabilitate the offender will be minimal. Because of the constant reference made by authority to the economic advantages of Community Service Orders, the sentence is unlikely to be able to survive as a viable option if the number of orders continues to increase at its present rate. (DX83496)
University of Southampton
Mottershead, Andrew Ronald
1987
Mottershead, Andrew Ronald
Mottershead, Andrew Ronald
(1987)
The contribution of community service orders to the education and rehabilitation of offenders.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The research undertaken examines the organisation of Community Service Orders in Wolverhampton in an attempt to assess the opportunities provided for the education and rehabilitation of the offenders. A description of its origins, its passage through Parliament and the Pilot Schemes for the Community Service Order is used to assess the likely consequences on the ability of the sentence to educate and rehabilitate the offender. The main body of the research concentrates on the operation of Community Service Orders within Wolverhampton. An investigation was made into the whole procedure, from the writing of the social enquiry report to the completion of the Community Service Order, to highlight firstly, the growing pressures that face those responsible for the Community Service Unit and, second, the subsequent reduction in the ability of those responsible to facilitate a planned educative content within the order. The recent case law and the introduction of Community Service Orders for 16 year olds are examined for their likely effects upon the education and rehabilitation of the offender. The research presented illustrated the fact that, because of the growing number of Community Service Orders, less consideration is being given to the quality of the placements for offenders and that as a consequence, the tasks performed by the offenders are becoming more punitive and less rehabilitive. Without an attempt to introduce at least a minimum standard for the placements used by Community Service Units, the opportunity to educate and rehabilitate the offender will be minimal. Because of the constant reference made by authority to the economic advantages of Community Service Orders, the sentence is unlikely to be able to survive as a viable option if the number of orders continues to increase at its present rate. (DX83496)
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Published date: 1987
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Andrew Ronald Mottershead
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