Community Service Orders: Assessing the Benefit to the Community

Citation

McIvor G (1990) Community Service Orders: Assessing the Benefit to the Community. Social Work Research Centre, University of Stirling. http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/community-service-orders-assessing-the-benefit-to-the-community/r/a11G00000017rHqIAI

Abstract
Results of a survey of individuals in the community who had work carried out by teams of offenders on Community Service Orders and of agencies that had offered individual placements. Concludes that in the majority of cases the provision of unpaid work by offenders was regarded as a valued and worthwhile service for the community.

Keywords
community service; evaluation

People

Professor Gillian McIvor

Emeritus Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology