Sentencing reform

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Guidance and regulation

• Circular 2020/03: Sentencing Act 2020
  • Guidance
  • 30 November 2020
  • Ministry of Justice
• Domestic Homicide Sentencing Review: Terms of Reference
  • Guidance
  • 2 November 2021
  • Ministry of Justice
• Implementation of criminal offences in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
  • Guidance
  • 3 December 2012
  • Ministry of Justice
• Referral Order provisions in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
  • Guidance
  • 3 December 2012
  • Ministry of Justice
• Implementation of Sentencing for dangerous offenders in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
  • Guidance
  • 4 March 2012
  • Ministry of Justice

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News and communications

• Victims come first in new justice law
  • 30 April 2026
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Press release
• Victims and bereaved get more time to challenge lenient sentences
  • 9 April 2026
  • Ministry of Justice
  • News story
• Longer behind bars for espionage in national security boost
  • 26 March 2026
  • Ministry of Justice and Home Office
  • News story
• Government action to avert summer prison disaster
  • 29 January 2026
  • Ministry of Justice and HM Prison and Probation Service
  • Press release
• Sentencing Act ensuring punishment cuts crime gets Royal Assent
  • 22 January 2026
  • Ministry of Justice
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Independent Sentencing Review: Final report
  • 11 July 2025
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Independent report
• A Profile of Repeat Offending by Children and Young People in England and Wales
  • 26 June 2025
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Research
• Criminogenic needs of prolific offenders
  • 8 May 2025
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Research
• Independent Sentencing Review: History and trends in sentencing
  • 17 March 2025
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Independent report
• Reoffending following custodial sentences or community orders: by offence seriousness and offender characteristics, 2000 to 2018
  • 22 September 2020
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Sentencing Bill 2025
  • 27 November 2025
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper
• Independent Sentencing Review 2024 to 2025
  • 15 November 2024
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Closed call for evidence
• Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022: overarching documents
  • 29 June 2023
  • Home Office and Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper
• Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022: factsheets
  • 20 August 2022
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• A Smarter Approach to Sentencing
  • 16 September 2020
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Ministry
  of Justice
• Home Office
• Prime Minister's Office
  10 Downing Street
• HM Courts &
  Tribunals Service
• HM Prison & Probation Service

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