Nov. 24 2023
Source Page: Cyber Crime, Modern Slavery and Sentencing: Findings from the 2021/22 NI Safe Community Telephone Survey.Found: Cyber Crime, Modern Slavery and Sentencing: Findings from the 2021/22 NI Safe Community Telephone Survey
Found: Equalities Statement: Sentencing Bill – Presumption Against Short Sentences
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the College of Policing's publication entitled Imprisonment and other custodial sanctions, published on 30 November 2023, if he will (a) make and (b) publish an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of that publication on the impact on reoffending of (i) custodial and (ii) non-custodial sentences.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Government has no plans to publish an assessment of the implications of this publication, as the findings of the College of Policing’s report entitled ‘Imprisonment and other custodial sanctions’ support the findings of Ministry of Justice research.
A 2019 MoJ analysis of a matched cohort of over 30,000 offenders shows that those who serve sentences of immediate custody of less than 12 months reoffend at a rate higher than similar offenders given community orders and suspended sentence orders by the courts
Our statistics suggest that 55% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months are convicted for further crimes. For offenders punished with Suspended Sentence Orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is significantly lower at 24%.
Based on this evidence, the Government introduced the presumption to suspend short sentences as part of the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament. This measure will place a duty on the courts to suspend custodial sentences of 12 months or less. Offenders will then serve their sentence in the community and will be required to comply. When the court imposes a suspended sentence, they can impose requirements on the offender and the sentencing framework provides a flexible range of requirements, such as unpaid work, drug and alcohol treatment, curfew, and electronic monitoring, with the intention of punishing the offender, providing reparation to the community, and addressing any criminogenic or rehabilitative needs of the offender which may otherwise increase the likelihood of their reoffending.
Found: Equalities Statement: Sentencing Bill – Serious Sexual Offences
Correspondence Mar. 21 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: Correspondence from the Committee to Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP Secretary of State for Justice regarding the Sentencing
Correspondence Apr. 16 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: from Mike Freer MP, Minister for Courts and Legal Services, dated 8 April 2024: Magistrates’ Court Sentencing
Nov. 24 2023
Source Page: Cyber Crime, Modern Slavery and Sentencing: Findings from the 2021/22 NI Safe Community Telephone Survey.Found: Cyber Crime, Modern Slavery and Sentencing: Findings from the 2021/22 NI Safe Community Telephone Survey
Correspondence Nov. 29 2023
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, dated 24 November on the Consultation on Murder Sentencing
Found: Equalities Statement: Sentencing Bill - Extension of Whole Life Orders
Correspondence Mar. 27 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Freer MP, Minister for Courts and Legal Services, dated 26 March 2024 regarding the Magistrates’ court sentencing