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PUBLICATION – Guideline assessment –
The Council has published an assessment of the impact of the Dangerous dogs offences guidelines on sentencing trends, under the Council's statutory duty to monitor the operation and effect of sentencing guidelines and to draw conclusions from this information.
PUBLICATION – Definitive guideline - archive –
Archived sentencing guideline.
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
A summary of the responses received to the consultation paper on the sentencing of dangerous dog offences.
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
A final resource assessment for the definitive dangerous dog offences guideline.
PUBLICATION – Statistical bulletin –
Data tables showing current sentencing practice for dangerous dog offences to accompany the definitive guideline.
PUBLICATION – Research report –
Research to support the development of dangerous dog offences sentencing guidelines.
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
A consultation paper on the sentencing of dangerous dog offences. Closed 9 June 2015.
PUBLICATION – Equality impact assessment –
An equality impact assessment for the draft guideline on dangerous dog offences.
PUBLICATION – Statistical bulletin –
A bulletin explaining current sentencing practice for dangerous dog offences describing the context in which the consultation proposals were made.
PUBLICATION – Case studies –
A selection of scenarios intended to familiarise sentencers with the dangerous dog offences guideline and its step-by-step approach. These case studies are for illustration only; each individual case must be sentenced according to the factors of that case. Please note these case studies do not take into account the changes to dangerous dogs legislation in 2014.