Public opinion and understanding of sentencing

Inquiry by the Justice Committee, 7 June 2022 to 30 May 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Tenth Report - Public opinion and understanding of sentencing (25 October 2023)
• Second Special Report - Public opinion and understanding of sentencing: Government and Sentencing Council responses to the Committee’s Tenth Report of Session 2022–23 (18 January 2024)

Evidence sessions

• 29 November 2022: Mark Day, Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners; Bishop James Jones KBE, Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners; Professor Mike Hough, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London; Professor Julian Roberts, Sentencing Academy; Claire Waxman OBE
• 13 December 2022: Steve Wade, Sentencing Council for England and Wales; Lord Justice William Davis, Sentencing Council for England and Wales; Claire Fielder, Ministry of Justice; Rt Hon Edward Argar MP, Ministry of Justice
• 7 March 2023: Dr Rory Kelly, Faculty of Laws, UCL; Professor Mandeep Dhami, Middlesex University; Professor Andrew Ashworth CBE KC (Hon), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford