Quality and effectiveness in probation officers' reports to sentencers

Preparations to implement the 1991 Criminal Justice Act in England and Wales included a pilot study organized by the Home Office to assess the impact of introducing pre-sentence reports in a wider range of cases in the Crown Courts. This paper reports some findings from the study concerning the vari...

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Autores principales: Gelsthorpe, Loraine 1953- (Autor) ; Raynor, Peter 1947- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1995
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 1995, Volumen: 35, Número: 2, Páginas: 188-200
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England
Strafzumessung
Bewährungshilfeberichte
Pre-sentence reports
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Sumario:Preparations to implement the 1991 Criminal Justice Act in England and Wales included a pilot study organized by the Home Office to assess the impact of introducing pre-sentence reports in a wider range of cases in the Crown Courts. This paper reports some findings from the study concerning the variable quality of probation officers' reports; the level of agreement between the researchers' assessments of quality and those made by sentencers in the Crown Courts; and the impact of low and high quality reports on the sentencing process
ISSN:0007-0955