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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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Fraud sentencing: a systematic literature review (5mb)

Research
20th October 2022
A literature review by Dr Rebecca Fish, Alice Mills, Georgina Bahri, Dr Deborah Powney, Dr Emily Cooper, Dr Clare Scollay, Professor Sarah Kingston, School of Justice, The University of Central Lancashire.

Sentencing assault offences literature review (831kb)

Research
6th October 2022
A literature review by Carly Lightowlers, Senior Lecturer Criminology, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, and Professor Melissa Hamilton, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, School of Law, University of Surrey.

Offences involving indecent images of children literature review (4mb)

Research
18th August 2022
A literature review by Professor Melissa Hamilton, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, School of Law, University of Surrey and Dr Ian Belton, Department of psychology, Middlesex University.

The sentencing of offences involving domestic abuse in Scotland literature review (628kb)

Research
30th June 2022
A literature review by Dr Rachel McPherson, Dr Jay Gormley and Dr Rhonda Wheate School of Law, University of Glasgow and Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, Law School, Strathclyde University.

The sentencing of offences involving domestic abuse in Scotland literature review (629kb)

Research
30th June 2022
A literature review by Dr Rachel McPherson, Dr Jay Gormley and Dr Rhonda Wheate                      School of Law, University of Glasgow and Centre for Law, Crime and Justice, Law School, Strathclyde University.
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