A community correction order is capable of serving all purposes of punishment — including just punishment, deterrence, denunciation, rehabilitation, and community protection — even for quite serious offences, and the traditional assumption that imprisonment is the only appropriate punishment for serious offences must be reconsidered in light of the CCO regime.
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