Criminal Justice
Making better use of non-custodial sentences
Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.
8th November 2024
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Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.
The Centre for Justice Innovation argues for smarter community sentences which give probation practitioners more powers, freedom and flexibility.
Parliamentary briefing on the policy consideration of non-custodial sentences.
What sentences do our courts pass? What do people do to get sentence to custody, and how long do they get?
A graphic look at the decline of the community sentence over the last decade.
The custody rate for indictable offences has increased since March 2011, from 24% to 32%.
Centre for Justice Innovation finds that a 22% drop in the use of PSRs has resulted into a big fall in the number of community sentences.
Why have community sentences fallen sharply (by 24%) in England and Wales over the last decade but increased by 18% in Scotland?
Crest Advisory analyses the decline & fall of community sentences with Magistrates’ lack of information and confidence in them a key problem, exacerbated by TR.
Despite an increase in the number of women sentenced in English & Welsh courts between 2011-2015, the number of community sentences fell by 28%.
Probation inspectors’ very critical assessment of new flexible rehabilitation activity requirements, saying less rehabilitation is being done under new system.
The authors noted that assessment of some needs (particularly “Attitudes” and education and training) tended to be more accurate later in the community sentence, when the Offender Manager had developed a relationship with the person they were supervising. Similarly, offenders’ feedback on their Community Order was particularly positive when they perceived that the Offender Manager understood their needs. There seem to be two key lessons to be drawn from this research for those planning new models of service delivery…
