Compulsory Public Service As a Sanction

As is known sanction is the legal consequence adherent to the unfairnesses which constitute crime. Penalties are the most classical sanction type which has been applied for all along. Penalties have been used for three main aims in history. Those are; to provide criminals to take lesssons from the penalty (special preventive function), to dissuade people who have potential crime purpose (general preventive function) and to providejustice sensation in the community. The modern criminal law idea acknowledges existence of these aims, on the other hand, other aims such as readaption of crimininals to community and protection of community from dangerous crminals.Therefore,existence of new sanction types benfiting those aims have been required. In Turk law, in the name of “alternative sanctions for short term prison penalites” alternative sanction which is also designed with different ways in comparative law placed in modern criminal law for the aim of readaption of criminals to community. Moreover, another sanction type called “ security measures” arised in order to remove potential danger of criminals for community. As a consequence of this, nowadays as designed in law of many countries, in Turk law, sanctions are designed in two group as “penalties” and “security measures”. However, it can not be determined that alternative sanctions including compulsory public services must be assessed in context of which group. Therefore, we tried to determine the composition, legal basis and place of sanction of compulsory public services in sanction theory by analyzing the opinions in doctrine and Turk criminal law number 5237 in our article. In addition, we analyzed the legislation pursuant to compulsory publıc servıce as a sanctıon in comparative and Turk law. Lastly we tried to mention some problems concerning compulsory publıc servıce as a sanctıon