Clearly, community punishments offer a way out to people who have got themselves enmeshed in crime and who want to change BUT how are these supposed to work with those who have absolutely NO interest in changing?
Your chances of jail for failing to appear periodically are extremely low.
In the USA it is probation officers who send felons to prison for breaches - here, that breed see themselves as an extension of defence solicitors and barristers!
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