Sentencing guidelines for use in Crown Court

To find an offence-specific guideline, you can do any of the following:

• enter the name of the offence in the box below,
• use the offence-type drop-down list to select a related group of offences such as sexual offences or public order offences,
• search for keywords, eg bribery, knives, sex,
• enter the name of the relevant Act and/or section, eg Explosive Substances Act 1883, Public Order Act, section 5, or
• scroll down the A to Z list of offences (guidelines not yet in effect are listed in purple).

To find an overarching guideline:

• on this page, click on the heading Overarching Guidelines,
• on any page, click the icon in the left-hand menu.

Right click to open a guideline in a new tab.

To print or create a temporary pdf of any guideline:

• with the page open, click on , then select your printer or "Adobe PDF" to create a pdf. To include hidden content, open drop-down box before printing. Do not retain these copies. Only the online version of a guideline is guaranteed to be up to date.