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Thursday, 17 November 2016

LATEST CRIMINAL JUSTICE STATISTICS

On the morning when Michael Gove is reported as saying that far too many offenders are imprisoned for far too long the latest statistics from the MOJ are published which more or less make his case. As far as custodial sentencing at magistrates` courts for the year ended June 2016 the numbers below have been extracted from the analysis. Of those appearing at magistrates` courts 79.6% were found or pleaded guilty and of those sentenced by the same courts only 3.6% were subject to an immediate custodial sentence. Such numbers should be compulsory study for those who persistently complain that the lower court is too custody happy.





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  1. Rogerborg18 November 2016 at 09:01

    And yet there are moves afoot to allow Magistrates to sentence up to a year in gaol. Somewhat mixed messages.

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    1. The Justice of the Peace18 November 2016 at 12:02

      Your comment is interesting but the intention as I see it with regard to increasing magistrates` powers to 12 months custody is to take some of the load from crown courts where costs are anything up to ten times higher depending on what statistics are employed.

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