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Calls for a Royal Commission to look into sentencing policy (25 November 2014)
Date: 25/11/2014
A leading judge has called for the next government to set up a Royal Commission on the penal system to look into sentencing policy – including the relationship between crime rates and sentencing policy and how the budget for the penal system should be spent.
The Law Society Gazette reports that Louis Blom-Cooper QC – together with academic Seán McConville of Queen Mary University of London School of Law – has published a pamphlet saying that the existing political mechanism “is ill-adapted to construct and promulgate penal and related criminal justice policy”. They point out that, whereas crime rates are falling, the prison population is “soaring”.
“We have a disjunction here that, were it to occur in almost any other field of public administration, would have been at the centre of a prolonged national debate.”
They add that, since 1980, successive governments have failed to appoint an expert body to decide on policy – and are calling for the next government to set up a Royal Commission with “tight terms of reference” to report on the penal system to end the “perverse” outcomes of sentencing policy.
If the commission is set up with months of the May 2015 General Election, it could report within two years – giving the next government sufficient time to act on the recommendations, they suggest.
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