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Community Service Sentencing Found Effective
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1991, page 8
Requiring criminal offenders to perform a certain number of hours of community service is a sentencing option that can be administered effectively and which appears to produce recidivism rates no worse than those produced by terms of incarceration, according to a study by Malcolm M. Feely and Richard Berk of …
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