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Crime and justice
Sentencing
Find out about crime in your area
You can now find street level information about crime and anti-social behaviour across England and Wales, including details of how the crime was dealt with
Being sentenced by a court - an overview
Types of sentence a court can give including fines, community sentences and prison sentences
How court sentences are worked out
What a court considers when deciding on the type and length of a person’s sentence
Types of prison sentence
How different types of prison sentence are carried out, including information on when prisoners are released
Court fines
Types of offences that you may get fined for, how to pay a fine and what happens if you don’t pay
Unfairly low sentences: how to complain
Find out how you can ask to have a criminal's sentence changed if you think it is not strict enough
Criminal records - what they are
What a criminal record is, when you have to declare it and how long it lasts
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You be the judge
Decide which sentence you would give for a crime - and see what happened in real life
