| 释义 |
community order
A sentence that may be ordered under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 imposing one or more of 14 specified requirements: an unpaid work requirement, a rehabilitation activity requirement, a programme requirement, a prohibited activity requirement, a curfew requirement, an exclusion requirement, a residence requirement, a foreign travel prohibition order requirement, a mental health treatment requirement, a drug rehabilitation requirement, an alcohol treatment requirement, a supervision requirement, an electronic monitoring requirement, and (in the case of an offender aged under 25) an attendance centre requirement. Under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 the system of community orders was extended to offenders aged 18 or under in the form of youth rehabilitation orders. The same Act provides that adult community orders can only be imposed where: (i) the offence is imprisonable; or (ii) the offender has been convicted and fined on three previous occasions. See also suspended sentence. |