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The Offender Management Community Cohort Study (OMCCS) is a longitudinal cohort study of adult offenders who started Community Orders between October 2009 and December 2010.
Guidelines on the acceptance of pleas and the prosecutor's role in the sentencing exercise (revised 2009).
The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
If you’re sent to prison for 2 or more crimes, you’ll usually get a…
A suspended prison sentence is served in the community instead of in…
A determinate prison sentence is for a fixed length of time. It includes a…
An indeterminate prison sentence does not have a fixed length of time.…
If you’re found guilty of murder, a court must give you a life sentence. A…
If you’re under 18 you’ll be treated differently to adults by a court. You…
Probation is when you serve a court sentence in the community, and can include unpaid work or being supervised after coming out of prison
This note is part of the statutory guidance under s215 of the HRA 2008 (from 1 April 2024)
Northern Region Judge Holbrook & Valuer N Walsh sitting on 15 March 2019
The latest versions of the Criminal Procedure Rules and of the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice.
Prisoners who break the rules while behind bars face new community payback-style punishments like repair work and litter picking, under tough prison rules to be set out this week.
Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice
A study examining the impact upon subsequent rule-breaking of punitive sanctions issued during disciplinary adjudications.
The police or Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) can give you a caution (warning) or a penalty notice if you commit a minor crime
Section last updated: September 2017.
Statutory Instruments that relate to the Criminal Procedure Rules.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
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