PUBLICATION – Minutes –
Minutes of meeting: April 2011
Minutes of the Sentencing Council meeting held on 8 April 2011.
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PRESS RELEASES –
Sentencing for drugs offences – public consultation launched on new guideline for judges
Today, the Sentencing Council is launching a three-month public consultation on its proposals to introduce a new guideline for judges and magistrates for the sentencing ...
PUBLICATION – Statistical bulletin –
Drug offences: Analysis and research bulletin
A bulletin explaining current sentencing practice for drug offences describing the context in which the consultation proposals were made.
PUBLICATION – Equality impact assessment –
Drug offences: Draft equality impact assessment
An equality impact assessment for the draft guideline on drug offences.
PUBLICATION – Research report –
Drug offences: Drug mules: twelve case studies
This document describes the key features emerging from case study interviews carried out by the Office of the Sentencing Council with a small number of women currently imprisoned for unlawful importation of drugs (many acting as drug 'mules').
PUBLICATION – Consultations –
Drug offences: Consultation
A consultation paper for a legal professional audience on the sentencing of drug offences. Closed on 20 June 2011.
PUBLICATION – Research report –
Public attitudes to the sentencing of drug offences: Research report
Qualitative research into public attitudes to sentencing for drug offences was conducted on behalf of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.
NEWS –
Sentencing for drug offences: consultation launched on changes to judges’ guidelines
The Sentencing Council launched a 12 week consultation proposing changes to the guidelines that judges and magistrates use to sentence people for drug offences.
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PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
Consistency in Sentencing
A document that sets out the general methodology used to assess the likely effect of new guidelines on resources. This note considers the potential resource impacts of one of the Council’s key objectives: promoting consistency in sentencing.
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
The Sentencing Council Resource Model
A document that sets out the general methodology used to assess the likely effect of new guidelines on resources. The Sentencing Council has developed a general analytical model which has been designed to aid resource assessment in a wide variety of scenarios.