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Find out why you might get a civil injunction, Community Protection Notice, Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) (formerly known as ASBOs), what it means and what happens if you break it.
Export controls on goods that can be used for torture or capital punishment.
What happens if you're given a community sentence or community service. Find out about Community Payback and the rules of your community sentence.
You may get a community sentence if you’re convicted of a crime by a court…
Community Payback is unpaid work like: removing graffiti clearing…
The treatment or programmes you get are intended to help with problems…
What you can and cannot do while on a community sentence is decided by: a…
Community sentences for young people are different from those given to…
This working paper discusses the experiences of children aged between 8 and 16 in Andhra Pradesh
This Brief examines whether corporal punishment in schools is associated with lasting effects on children’s cognitive development
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) made a wide-ranging set of changes within various areas of the MOJ portfolio.
The latest periodic report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT).
The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
Commencement of the new referral order provisions in Section 79 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (“the 2012 Act”) creates five new criminal offences. Section 142 - offences…
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Use this form to apply for a person to be punished for contempt of court after breaching a court order.
Includes being charged with a crime, cautions, community sentences and police powers
The Ministry of Justice has published an evidence based review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).
Commencement of sections 122 - 128 to and Schedules 18 - 22 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
Children under 10 who break the law can be given a Local Child Curfew, a Child Safety Order or can be taken into care
The different types of court - magistrates' court, Crown Court and youth court - the crimes they deal with and the level of sentences they can give.
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