The Sentencing Academy is a charitable incorporated organisation created in 2019 to promote more effective sentencing practices and to...

Dr Gabrielle Watson In August 2023, former neonatal nurse, Lucy Letby, refused to attend her own sentencing hearing for the murders of...

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, we would like to highlight an Issue paper that we shared last year by Ailbhe O’Loughlin looking...

The Kalisher Trust and the Sentencing Academy are delighted to offer the opportunity for an outstanding candidate to undertake an...

By Dr Annie Bunce • Desistance is the cessation of offending by those with previous patterns of criminal behaviour. Desistance is a...

The Sentencing Academy has published a new paper by our Kalisher Trust intern, Georgia-Mae Chung, exploring the practical issues arising...

We are excited to announce the appointment of two new trustees to our Board. Anna Draper is a former Kalisher Trust intern at the Academy...

Following the well-attended Sentencing Seminar on the 13 January 2023 looking at current issues in sentencing policy and research in...

Following the well-attended Sentencing Seminar on the 13 January 2023 looking at current issues in sentencing policy and research in...

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The Sentencing Academy is delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s thesis prize is Lewis Bocking for his dissertation...

By Dr Jay Gormley • Criminal fines are the most common criminal sanction and account for about 75% of principal sanctions issued by...

By Dr Gabrielle Watson This paper reviews approaches to the sentencing of non-recent or ‘historic’ offenders in England and Wales. These...

Author: Dr Elaine Freer Deferred sentences are available to any judge or bench of magistrates sentencing a defendant in the magistrates’...

By Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin • This paper addresses sentencing practices and policies in respect of convicted offenders with mental disorders,...

Authors: Professor Julian V. Roberts, Dr Elaine Freer and Dr Jonathan Bild This report provides an introduction to the concept of...

The Scottish Sentencing Council has today published a literature review we produced for them examining the issue of sentencing offenders...

The Kalisher Trust and the Sentencing Academy are delighted to offer the opportunity for an outstanding candidate to undertake an...

By Dr Gwen Robinson • In order for courts to craft and impose appropriate and effective sentences, sentencers need an adequate amount of...

The Sentencing Academy has published a new paper by our Kalisher Trust intern, Anna Draper, exploring the practical issues arising from...