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.
Sentencing Young People Impact Assessment (1mb)
This document fulfils the Scottish Sentencing Council’s statutory duty to provide an assessment of the costs and benefits to which the implementation of a guideline is likely to give rise, and an assessment of the likely impact of the guideline on the criminal justice system in general.
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.
National Care Service - Consultation response (381kb)
The Scottish Sentencing Council’s response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on its proposals for the creation of a National Care Service.
Sentencing Young People - public consultation analysis (3mb)
Independent analysis of responses to the Scottish Sentencing Council's public consultation on the draft sentencing young people guideline by Alison Platts and Dawn Griesbach.
Sentencing young people - report on public consultation exercise (1mb)
This report sets out the Council’s views on some of the most common matters raised during the public consultation exercise on the draft sentencing young people guideline and gives an indication of how the guideline submitted to the High Court will differ as a result.