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Community Service help

  • 13-01-2012 10:41am
    #1
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭


    I'm currently working on a project where one of the characters finds himself having to work in a charity shop because of a community service sentence.

    What I'm trying to find out is, typically, what offences in the Irish Jurisdiction usually see a judge handing down community service order? What is the average number of hours that is usually given? What particular court would normally hand out a community service order?

    Many thanks.


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  • #2
    Reloc8
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    1. you might consider checking whether a charity shop will be accepted as a community service project by the probation services - info here http://www.probation.ie/pws/websitepublishingdec09.nsf/Content/How+Community+Service+Works

    2. In general the max hours given is 240 hours. That is on the basis that the probabation service presume that is the most anyone can do in one year. An average from District Court is probably 120 hours, in lieu of say 6 months imprisonment.

    3. You won't see community service from the Central Criminal or Special Criminal Court (theoretically possible though). You will come across it regularly in the District or Circuit Criminal Courts, perhaps slightly more so in the District Court.

    4. Offences can be anything - its more to do with the offender being suitable for community service. Do a google search on 'community service' or check through newspapers for court reports (evening herald covers quite a bit of district court) and you'll come across typical cases.


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