This Bill has been introduced to remove the ability of the Sentencing Council to issue Sentencing Guidelines which frame a request for a pre-sentence report
Tag: criminal justice
A Hope List for IWD 2024
‘Hope locates itself in the premise that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is the room to act.’
Evidence-led sentencing ? A proposed new guideline.
The Sentencing Council have published a revised Imposition of Community and Custodial Sentences guideline for consultation. After years of research into sentencing practice and the impact on children of maternal imprisonment, I am really pleased to see such strong, evidence-led, development of the sentencing guidelines.
Time and a Stateside interlude
A week ago I intended to write a third and final blog post about the brilliant BBC drama ‘Time’ by Jimmy McGovern. I was going to write about Orla and her children. About the inadequacy of the provision made for children whose mother is imprisoned. It would have said, no this is not fiction …
Time : Episode 2
*spoilers ‘The world’s not a straightforward place for a woman’ Season 2 , Episode 2 of Time by Jimmy McGovern, gives us insights into the complexity
When we jail a mother we condemn her child too
Including the proposed amendments in the Police, Crime, sentencing and Courts Bill isn’t about special treatment for women. It is about fair and just treatment for children, like Alice’s daughter, who desperately need to be more than just an afterthought.
Dr Shona Minson 