Chapter 10 Useful websites

The Sentencing Academy has a wide range of resources on sentencing. See the Sentencing Academy website and its subpage ‘Public Knowledge of Sentencing Practice and Trends’
The Sentencing Council website has extensive guidance for judges and magistrates, setting out how offenders should be sentenced for different offences. The website also contains a range of research reports including ones addressing public opinion.
The Office of National Statistics published the findings of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, including a wide range of findings on public attitudes to crime and justice. See the Crime and Justice page and the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
Survey companies often maintain searchable web-based archives of polls, which can yield a great deal of information about public opinion. In the UK, Ipsos MORI’s archive is worth visiting.
The easiest online sources of information about criminal justice policies and government funded research on crime are the website of the Ministry of Justice and the website of the Home Office
The websites of pressure groups such as the Prison Reform Trust , the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies often carry information about criminal policy and about public reactions to policy.