How the Probation Service works toward a safer society? By performing a community service an offender can pay back to society Source: Reclassering Nederland - member of the consortium implementing the EU project "Enhancing Criminal Justice in Kazakhstan https://www.eucj.kz/en/project/aims-and-objectives

1. Community Servic

2. The Judge of Prosecutor can
impose a community service
sentence

3. By performing a community
service an offender can pay
back to society

4. There are two kinds
of community
services:

5. Working in group projects,
whereby the offender is
supervised by a work master
from the Probation Service

6. Or working for an
external organisation

7. In both cases the offender will work for
the general benefit of society

8. For instance doing
the dishes in a
kitchen of a nursing
home

9. Or working in a second hand shop

10. Or cleaning
parks and
neighbourhood
s

11. A community sentence
lasts maximally 240
hours

12. The probation
Service decides
what work the
offender should do

13. The offender is obliged
to fullfill the work
properly

14. If he doesn't, he
can still go to
prison

15. The community
service can be
imposed for
many offences,
but not for
serious acts of
violence or
sexual
offences

16. A major advantage is that community sentences prevent
damage caused by prison detention (loss of home,
relationship and job)

17. because the offender can
still participate in the
community

18. In addition
offenders get used
to work routine and
gain work
experience

19. This reduces the chance of re-offending
considerably; much more than after a prison

20. This is how the Probation Service contributes to
a safer society