Community Orders
(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the implications for his policies are of the decline in the use of community sentences since 2011.
This question was answered on 20th November 2017
Under section 152 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, a court is required, before considering imposing a custodial sentence, to be satisfied that the offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified. In 2016 the independent Sentencing Council issued a guideline on the imposition of community and custodial sentences, to clarify the appropriate circumstances for imposing community sentences, suspended sentence orders and short custodial sentences.