Ethnicity and custodial sentencing
The Sentencing Academy probes racial disparity in custodial sentencing over the last decade.
25th June 2021
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The Sentencing Academy probes racial disparity in custodial sentencing over the last decade.
Charlotte Threipland of APPEAL questions the fairness of the single justice procedure used for more than half a million low level offences a year.
Children are over represented in statistics on crime and violence, both as victims and as perpetrators. To be able to charge them with criminal offences at 10 years is failing them before they have a chance.
Official figures for 2020 show prosecutions down 26% but out of court disposals up by 18% on 2019.
New analysis of police data revealing unnecessary arrests of women.
Let the Butler Trust know what types of prison, probation & youth justice information you’d like to see on their Knowledge Exchange site.
Girls in the criminal justice system face a cliff-edge as they turn 18 as many services change or drop off all at once and leave young women vulnerable at a critical time in their lives.
RAND evaluation of the impact of the national model of Liaison and Diversion schemes in police custody.
Russell Webster’s traditional Easter criminal justice quiz
Young adults call for radical police reform focussed on tackling poverty, trauma, and structural racism.
Latest disturbing statistics on the frequency of rape in England and Wales.
All the main provisions of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
