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.
The sentencing of offences involving domestic abuse in Scotland literature review (628kb)
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)
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 Methodological Challenges of Comparative Sentencing Research (1004kb)
A literature review by Dr Jay Gormley, Centre for Law, Crime & Justice, The Law School, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, Prof. Julian Roberts, PhD, Centre for Criminological Research, Law Faculty, University of Oxford, England, Dr Jose Pina-Sánchez, Associate Professor in Quantitative Criminology, University of Leeds, England, Prof Cyrus Tata, PhD, Centre for Law, Crime & Justice, The Law School, University of Strathclyde, Scotland and Ana Veiga, LLB, MPhil, University of Leeds, England.
Mental Health and Sentencing Literature Review (823kb)
A literature review by Ailbhe O’Loughlin (University of York), Jay Gormley (University of Strathclyde), Lucy Willmott (University of Cambridge) and Jonathan Bild, Julian Roberts and Anna Draper (Sentencing Academy).
Attitudes of young people to sentencing of young people (4mb)
Authors: Dr Johanne Miller and Dr Sarah AndersonUniversity of the West of Scotland
As part of developing the draft guideline the Council wanted to explore the views and opinions of young people across Scotland. In May 2019, the University of the West of Scotland was commissioned by the Council to explore the opinions of young people, including young people with convictions, on sentencing and the draft guideline. This research was carried out during the period July 2019 to January 2020.