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Council of Europe Conventions and Recommendations

Community sanctions and measures Research

The penal narratives of community sentence and the role of probation (2020)

The case of the Wrocław model of community service.
Anna Matczak, The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Community Sanctions and Measures (2015)

Carr, N. (2015). Community Sanctions and Measures. In D. Healy, C. Hamilton, Y. Daly, & M. Butler (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology Routledge.
Queen’s University Belfast

Have Community Sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems (2015)

Marcelo F Aebi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Natalia Delgrande, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Yann Marguet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Paying Back: 30 Years of Unpaid Work by Offenders in Scotland (2015)

Gill McIvor, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research University of Stirling

Evaluation of Community Payback Orders, Criminal Justice Social Work Reports and the Presumption Against Short Sentences (2015)

Simon Anderson, Stephen Hinchliffe, Amy Homes, Susan
McConville and Annie Wild (ScotCen Social Research), Neil Hutton
(Strathclyde University), Simon Noble (Noble Openshaw Ltd)

Recording Community Sanctions and Measures and Assessing Attrition (2014)

A Methodological Study on Comparative Data in Europe
Markku Heiskanen, Marcelo F. Aebi, Willem van der Brugge and
Jörg-Martin Jehle (eds.) Helsinki

The Improbable Persistence of Probation and other Community Sanctions and Measures (2012)

Gwen Robinson, University of Sheffield
Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow
Shadd Maruna, Queen’s University Belfast