When someone is sentenced in the magistrates’ courts, they are entitled to appeal against their sentence to the Crown Court. From the...

Where offenders have been sentenced for certain offences in the Crown Court and the Attorney General considers that the sentence imposed...

A Community Order is the most severe form of non-custodial sentence that courts in England and Wales can impose (as Suspended Sentence...

The Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) was introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 and came into force on 20...

The most severe sentence a court in England and Wales can impose is a sentence of imprisonment. The use of custodial sentences is, to...

Discharges lie at the bottom of the hierarchy in terms of the types of sentence a court can impose and they take two different forms: an...

Introduced in their current form in 2012, an extended sentence differs from a determinate sentence in two important ways: firstly, rather...

The most commonly-used sentencing disposal is a fine. In the year to June 2019, 916,174 offenders were fined by courts in England and...

The Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence was introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, came into force in April 2005, was...

If an offender is convicted of murder then the judge must impose a life sentence. However, there are also circumstances in which a judge...

The majority of prisoners are released from prison automatically at the halfway stage of their sentence. However, some prisoners need to...

Where offenders have previously been convicted of one or more criminal offences, the court must take this previous offending into account...

When an offender is released from prison, they will be subject to licence conditions for the remainder of their sentence (for example,...

Offenders who plead guilty to an offence will receive a discount to their sentence. If a guilty plea is entered at the first available...

When an adult is convicted of murder the court must impose a sentence of life imprisonment (if the offender was under the age of 18 at...

In 2010, the Sentencing Council was established and one of its primary responsibilities is to produce sentencing guidelines for courts to...

A court can suspend a custodial sentence of between 14 days and two years for a period of up to two years. According to the Sentencing...