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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.

• Updated: 3 April 2014

Guidelines on the acceptance of pleas and the prosecutor's role in the sentencing exercise (revised 2009).

• Updated: 30 November 2012

The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.

• Concurrent and consecutive sentences

  If you’re sent to prison for 2 or more crimes, you’ll usually get a…

• Suspended prison sentences

  A suspended prison sentence is served in the community instead of in…

• Determinate prison sentences

  A determinate prison sentence is for a fixed length of time. It includes a…

• Indeterminate prison sentences

  An indeterminate prison sentence does not have a fixed length of time.…

• Life sentences

  If you’re found guilty of murder, a court must give you a life sentence. A…

• Sentences for children and young people under 18

  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

Northern Region Judge Holbrook & Valuer N Walsh sitting on 15 March 2019

• Updated: 17 April 2019

This note is part of the statutory guidance under s215 of the HRA 2008 (from 1 April 2024)

• Updated: 29 February 2024

The latest versions of the Criminal Procedure Rules and of the Criminal Practice Directions made by the Lord Chief Justice.

• Updated: 29 July 2024

How benefits, charges and payments of pension to Chapter 1 members are affected by the public service pensions remedy (also known as McCloud).

• Updated: 5 October 2023

Disciplinary procedures your employer has at work - disciplinary hearings, appeals, suspension, dismissal and help and advice

• Updated: 1 April 2016