News

A new interactive 'case study' has been added to our website resource on sentencing, enabling people to learn more about how judges decide criminal court sentences in Scotland.

Read our latest blog contributed by the Council's victims expert, Sue Moody, on her attendance at the National Association of Sentencing Commissions' annual conference in Utah.

Read our latest blog written by Chief Inspector Mark Leonard of the Specialist Crime Division about the Positive Lifestyle Project. 

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The Council’s advocate member, Stephen O’Rourke, recently attended the Next Steps conference organised by Holyrood Events which focused on how community justice partners can work to reduce offending and strengthen communities. Read his blog on the issues most relevant to sentencing.

The Council is holding an engagement event with a range of stakeholders to help inform the development of its guideline on sentencing young people, one of the key pieces of work announced in its Business Plan for 2015-18.