A Community Order is a non-custodial sentence with one or more specific requirements which can be tailored for the purposes of punishment and/or to meet the needs of a defendant to overcome problems and avoid committing offences in the future.
There are multiple possible requirements which can be attached to a community order.
Read on for when a community order can be imposed, the requirements that can be attached, the consequences of breach and the differtence between a community order and a suspended sentence (which will usually have identical conditions attached).
