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This literature review brings together the evidence on the effectiveness of sentencing from the perspectives of offenders, the general public, victims and sentencers.
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In the Sentencing Council’s strategic objectives for 2021-2026 we made a commitment to “explore how the Council’s expanded explanations are being interpreted and applied by sentencers in practice”. This qualitative research report reviews how selected aggravating and mitigating factors, and their accompanying expanded explanations, were identified and interpreted by the judges and magistrates who took part.
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In the Sentencing Council’s strategic objectives for 2021-2026 we made a commitment to explore how guideline users access, use and interact with the sentencing guidelines on our website.
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This roundup summarises some of the research work recently undertaken or commissioned by the Council.
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The Sentencing Council has an overarching objective to promote a fair approach to sentencing, thus placing equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work
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Public knowledge of and confidence in the criminal justice system and sentencing: 2022 reports on research carried out to provide insight into the public's attitudes to, and understanding of, the criminal justice system and sentencing.
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The Sentencing Council has published a review that brings together evidence on the effectiveness of different sentencing options on reoffending.
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The Totality guideline is applied by the courts when sentencing an offender either for multiple offences or when they are already serving a sentence. To find out how the guideline is working in practice, the Council carried out a survey and series of interviews with sentencers.
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As part of its tenth anniversary year, the Council undertook to investigate its impact in three key areas, and this involved conducting a series of analytical projects. These summary reports contain the main findings from each of these projects.
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This report contains findings from statistical analysis of data from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, investigating the association between a range of sentencing factors and offender demographics and the sentence imposed, in England and Wales.