Public opinion and understanding of sentencing examined

• Watch Parliament TV: Public opinion and understanding of sentencing
• Inquiry: Public opinion and understanding of sentencing
• Justice Committee

The new inquiry aims to get a better understanding of public awareness around how sentencing works, and how accessible information on court sentences and the reasoning behind them is. In this opening session, the Committee will examine what the current level of understanding of sentencing is among victims and the wider public. It will also look at how these views inform sentencing policy and examine what more can be done to improve awareness of how sentencing operates. 

Witnesses 

Tuesday 29 November, Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

From 2.30pm-4:30pm 

• Professor Mike Hough, Emeritus Professor, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London 
• Professor Julian Roberts, Executive Director, Sentencing Academy; Professor of Criminology in the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and former member of the Sentencing Council of England and Wales (2009-2018) 
• Claire Waxman OBE, Victims’ Commissioner for London  
• Bishop James Jones KBE, Chair, Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners 
• Mark Day, Joint Secretary, Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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