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Community Service Orders (CSOs) have become an increasingly popular sentencing option in New South Wales courts, as they obligate offenders to perform work in the community as an alternative to imposing stricter judicial remedies or sanctions. Research by the Australian Institute of Criminology has indicated that community sentencing has a much higher likelihood of rehabilitating criminal offenders, because it punishes them through restrictions on their time and liberty, as well as encouraging them to reform their behaviour. Community Service Orders have also proven to be cost-effective for the authorities, as they are relatively cheap to administer in contrast to imprisonment, while simultaneously enabling offenders to make reparations for harm committed in the local community. Read the rest of this entry »