PUBLICATION – Equality impact assessment –
Drug offences: Draft equality impact assessment
An equality impact assessment for the draft guideline on drug offences.
Do not retain this copy. Only the online version of a guideline is guaranteed to be up to date.
PUBLICATION – Equality impact assessment –
An equality impact assessment for the draft guideline on drug offences.
PUBLICATION – Research report –
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 –
A consultation paper for a legal professional audience on the sentencing of drug offences. Closed on 20 June 2011.
PUBLICATION – 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 –
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 –
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 –
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.
PRESS RELEASES –
Today, the Sentencing Council is publishing a new guideline for judges and magistrates.
It aims to ensure a consistent and proportionate approach to sentencing, with convicted ...
PUBLICATION – Definitive guideline - archive –
Archived sentencing guideline.
PUBLICATION – Resource assessment –
A final resource assessment for the definitive assault offences guideline.