Article: Community service in Texas: results of a probation survey.

Community service is compulsory labor performed by an offender as punishment for a crime and is often referred to as a community service order. An offender imposed a community service order is required to perform labor for a certain number of hours or days at community organizations such as charitable nonprofit agencies. Community service is closely aligned with restitution in that the offender engages in acts, which are designed in part to make reparation for harm of criminal offending, but these acts are directed to the larger community, rather than the victim, in the form of good works. The work performed is unpaid and intended to benefit communities; thus, community ...

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