Public opinion and understanding of sentencing - Committees

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The deadline for submissions was Monday 22 August 2022.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Tenth Report - Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Inquiry Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Published 25 October 2023

HC 305

Report

Response to this report

Second Special Report - Public opinion and understanding of sentencing: Government and Sentencing Council responses to the Committee’s Tenth Report of Session 2022–23

Published 18 January 2024

HC 442

Special Report

Second Special Report - Public opinion and understanding of sentencing: Government and Sentencing Council responses to the Committee’s Tenth Report of Session 2022–23

Inquiry Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Published 18 January 2024

HC 442

Special Report

Correspondence

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Letter from Rt Hon Edward Argar MP, Minister of State for Justice, dated 24 January 2023, on follow up from 13 December evidence session

Inquiry Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Published 31 January 2023

Correspondence

Oral evidence transcripts

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7 March 2023

Work Proposed changes to the Totality sentencing guideline (Non-inquiry session), and Public opinion and understanding of sentencing (Inquiry)

Witnesses Dr Rory Kelly (Lecturer in Criminal Evidence and Criminal Law at Faculty of Laws, UCL), Professor Mandeep Dhami (Professor in Decision Psychology at Middlesex University), and Professor Andrew Ashworth CBE KC (Hon) (Emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law at Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)

Published 8 March 2023

Oral Evidence

13 December 2022

Inquiry Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Witnesses Steve Wade (Chief Executive at Sentencing Council for England and Wales), Lord Justice William Davis (Chairman at Sentencing Council for England and Wales), Claire Fielder (Director of Youth Justice and Offender Policy at Ministry of Justice), and Rt Hon Edward Argar MP (Minister of State for Justice at Ministry of Justice)

Published 15 December 2022

Oral Evidence

29 November 2022

Inquiry Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Witnesses Mark Day (Joint Secretary at Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners), Bishop James Jones KBE (Chair at Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners), Professor Mike Hough (Emeritus Professor at School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London), Professor Julian Roberts (Executive Director at Sentencing Academy), and Claire Waxman OBE (Victims' Commissioner for London)