Homicide is the killing of one person by another. It accounts for a very small proportion of deaths each year in England and Wales; for the most recent five years of mortality data, from 2017 to 2021, homicides accounted for one in every 800 deaths. Historical data on...
As part of government’s Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan, published in March 2023, a 6 month pilot will rapidly deploy those sentenced to perform Community Service (unpaid work) to swiftly clean up egregious instances of fly-tipping, vandalism and littering as part...
In a recent case, an offender offered the following by way of mitigation: ‘[He] said that he owed a gang £25,000 for his passage to the United Kingdom. He now said that he had initially been working on a construction site and had moved to work where the cannabis...
A pre-sentence report is advice given to the court following the facts of the case, expert risks and needs assessments, including an independent sentencing proposal and additional relevant information. They must be as objective as possible and exist to assist the...
The Sentencing of young persons is one of the most complex judicial exercises, which must recognise the substantial differences between child and adult offending, particularly where an offender before the court has just reached majority age. Research has repeatedly...
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