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Remorse: what is it good for?
Kelly Grehan and Sean Mullen of Revolving Doors asks whether remorse has a place in sentencing.
14th December 2023
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Kelly Grehan and Sean Mullen of Revolving Doors asks whether remorse has a place in sentencing.
The Justice Committee warns that public debate on sentencing is “stuck in a dysfunctional and reactive cycle” and calls on the Government to identify where there may be genuine gaps between sentencing policy and public opinion.
The custody rate for indictable offences has increased since March 2011, from 24% to 32%.
Latest criminal justice statistics confirm the long term trend of fewer people going through the courts, but more sentenced to prison with longer sentences.
The latest set of MoJ statistics show fewer people going through the justice system but more people sent to prison for longer periods of time.
The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 is one of those wide-raging criminal justice acts which create numerous new offences, make substantial changes to sentencing and try to address lots of minor anomalies in a way that has become increasingly popular in the last two decades.
Crime is down, there are fewer offenders, but the prison system remains overcrowded since people are serving longer sentences.
