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Do You Think Community Punishment Is More Effective Than Imprisonment?  

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Do You Think Community Punishment Is More Effective Than Imprisonment? In order to provide an accurate analysis of weather community punishment is more effective than imprisonment, one must first clearly define the two methods of educating offenders. Community punishment takes the form of varying schemes that do not remove the liberty of an offender, schemes such as community rehabilitation orders which involve the offender being monitored by a probation officer and attendance centre order which denies the offender leisure time. Imprisonment as we all know is the "locking up" of offenders for increasing amounts of years dependant on the severity of the crime. Community punishment as mentioned before is varying in its applications, this is advantageous as it can deal with varying types and severity of crime. The community punishment order is the courts main alternative to imprisonment, it forces offenders to take part in unpaid community work with tasks...

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