The importance of improving consistency in sentencing has been underscored by
institutional reforms in a number of jurisdictions. However, the effectiveness of these policy …

Considers, using statistics from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, the extent to which
gender disparities are evident in the sentences imposed for burglary, assault and drug …

Objectives The development and application of methods to assess consistency in
sentencing before and after the 2011 England and Wales assault guideline came into force …

Research on legal and extralegal disparity in criminal sentencing has been conducted
primarily in the United States, and, to a lesser extent, in select European nations. Largely …

Most research in sentencing discrimination in the United Kingdom has relied on aggregate
analyses comparing disparities by ethnic group. These studies fail to consider differences in …

Abstract Sentencing in England and Wales has evolved in a direction apart from other
common law countries. Although sentencing problems found in many Western nations are …

This article investigates the presence of unwarranted between court disparities in England
and Wales, examining whether they can be explained by non-legal contextual factors such …

Research on sentence consistency in England and Wales has focused on disparities
between courts, with differences between judges generally ignored. This is largely due to …

The English summer riots of 2011 resulted in the criminal justice system having to process
an unprecedented number of offenders in a short timeframe. This study explores sentencing …

The 'England and Wales Sentencing Guidelines' aim to promote consistency by organizing
the sentencing process as a sequence of steps, with initial judicial assessments …