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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.

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Sexual offences involving rape literature review (1mb)

Research
4th February 2021
A literature review by Dr Rachel McPherson, Mr Nicholas Burgess, Dr Jay Gormley and Professor Cyrus Tata School of Law, University of Glasgow and Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, School of Law, Strathclyde University, reviewing the information available on the sentencing of rape offences in Scotland, as well as looking at other jurisdictions.

Sexual offences involving sexual assault Literature Review (904kb)

Research
4th February 2021
A literature review by Dr Rachel McPherson, Mr Nicholas Burgess, Dr Jay Gormley and Professor Cyrus Tata School of Law, University of Glasgow and Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, School of Law, Strathclyde University, reviewing the information available on the sentencing of offences involving sexual assault in Scotland, as well as looking at other jurisdictions.

Literature Review of Sentencing of Environmental and Wildlife Crimes (1mb)

Research
18th December 2020
Dr Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann and Donald Campbell at the University of Strathclyde conducted a review to summarise existing academic, legal and statistical work on the sentencing of environmental and wildlife offences.

Sentence discounting sentencing and plea decision-making literature review (1mb)

Research
18th December 2020
A literature review by Dr Jay Gormley, Dr Rachel McPherson and Professor Cyrus Tata of the Centre for Law, Crime & Justice, The Law School, University of Strathclyde, examines how sentence discounting,  works both in Scotland and in other jurisdictions around the world.

The development of cognitive and emotional maturity in adolescents and its relevance in judicial contexts (1mb)

Research
21st February 2020
In order to inform its development of a guideline on sentencing young people, the Scottish Sentencing Council asked the University of Edinburgh to carry out a systematic review of the current neurological, neuropsychological, and psychological evidence on the cognitive maturity of younger people.
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