A newly published report investigates the impact of Community Sentence Treatment Requirements (CSTRs) on reoffending, comparing them with short custodial sentences and other community sentences. The ...

Plans to increase the use of community service for offenders is not a soft option for law breakers, the Minister for Justice has said. David Ford confirmed that legislation to be brought before the ...

Campaigners claim that magistrates are failing to use community sentences because they are unsure of their effectiveness. Anabel Unity Sale reports on the measures taken to convince them otherwise ...

The prisons minister has said community sentences need “to be trusted more by the courts” as an alternative to jail. Speaking at Labour’s conference, Lord Timpson said the government was moving ...

Three out of five people think community sentences are a soft option or "weak and undemanding", a report has found. Even the community payback scheme, the toughest type of order, often involves ...

A man given a community sentence for raping a 13-year-old girl when he was 17 has been acquitted by appeal judges. Sean Hogg, 22, was convicted of attacking the girl twice in Dalkeith Country Park, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lady Justice atop the Central Criminal Court in London. From overcrowded prisons to record court backlogs, the UK's criminal ...