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The public is to have a say in the development of Scotland’s first sentencing guideline which will influence the way offenders are sentenced in our courts.

In preparation for the establishment of the Scottish Sentencing Council later this year two Scottish Statutory Instruments laid before the Scottish Parliament have now entered into force.

Turning Point Scotland provides a service that helps people address the underlying causes of their offending behaviour. Here, they have provided a guest blog featuring a true case study. Read the blog.

A report outlining the key points discussed at the Council’s ‘Sentencing Young People’ conference has now been published.

Lord Carloway, the Lord President, spoke yesterday of the Council’s role in sentencing when he delivered the speech, 'Imprisonment in Scotland: towards a penological post-modernism’ to the Scottish Universities Insight Institute.