CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Indictable Offence, Community Service, Presentence Investigation Report
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Must admit to involvement in the crime in order to participate. Risk/needs assessments (checklists) play a pivotal role in the supervision of an individual while in community corrections. A sentence of probation requires that the offender abide by conditions as specified in a probation order. Can be assigned on its own or be a required accompaniment to a suspended sentence or conditional discharge. Probation can also be ordered in addition to most other sentences, including a conditional sentence, a fine as well as incarceration for 2 years or less. The supervision of probation orders is generally the most prominent activity in the administration of community corrections. On an average day in 2002/03, 88% of all adult persons in provincial/territorial community corrections were supervised on probation. Similar to restitution, community service can be a condition of supervised probation or a conditional sentence. The court may also order stand-alone community service by attaching it to a non-reporting probation order.
