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Sentencing

Everyone admits short prison sentences are ineffective, so why do the courts still use them?

Why is Scotland raising its age of criminal responsibility, but not England and Wales?

The question is not why the Scottish prison population has fallen, but why it hasn’t fallen further

Scotland – where criminal justice is part of social justice

Scotland – a far off land of which we know too little?

Crime reduction: are we barking up the wrong tree?

The blame game: who bears responsibility for the rise in the prison population?

If we don’t know why the prison population is rising, we have little hope of halting the rise

A child’s right to a fair trial

Why do we imprison mothers for crimes like tampering with an electricity meter?

Most crime is committed by immature young men

When society fails to protect children, some will turn to serious crime

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