Publications
All information published by the Council, including the Council's business plans and annual reports, can be accessed on this page.
Further details about the classes of information published by the Council, and how to access that information, are available in the Guide to information published by the Scottish Sentencing Council.
Mental health and sentencing conference report (478kb)
A report summarising the presentations and discussions at the Council's conference, Mental health, neurodivergence, and learning disability in sentencing, held in August 2024.
Inaugural Scottish Sentencing Research Symposium Report (1mb)
Hosted by the Scottish Sentencing Council, the Sentencing Academy, and the University of Glasgow on 24 November 2023.
Community sentencing stakeholder event (253kb)
A report of an event held with stakeholders from across Scotland hosted by the Scottish Sentencing Council in March 2022 on the subject of community sentencing.
Judicial perspectives of community-based disposals (1mb)
A paper on a consultative exercise with sentencers across Scotland carried out by the Scottish Sentencing Council in early 2021, which seeks to identify any gaps or barriers to provision of community based disposals and to ascertain what might improve judicial confidence in community-based interventions.