Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 16
16
Deferred
Paragraph: 85
Review statutory purposes of sentencing to emphasise justice for victims and families.
Recommendation
Findings from the Committee’s engagement with the public demonstrate how important it is for the MoJ to undertake more work of this nature and to incorporate findings into its policy development. The Government should review the statutory purposes of sentencing to consider whether greater emphasis should be placed on achieving justice for the victims of crime and their families.
Government Response Summary
The government's response focused on the quarterly publication of Criminal Justice System Statistics and efforts to make data more accessible to users, not addressing the recommendation to review the statutory purposes of sentencing to emphasize justice for victims.
Paragraph Reference:
85
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
17. The quarterly publication of Criminal Justice System Statistics has developed significantly in recent years to continue to address as many users’ needs as possible, in a far more flexible way than would be possible with a lengthy digest—for example, providing more detailed data tools that enable users to self-serve and cut data in a whole variety of ways, and through development of the raw data themselves. We continue to invite user feedback on all our publications and produce our statistics with focus on the code of practice for statistics, with a key focus on user needs. We also publish a comprehensive user guide that takes people through our data, providing commentary alongside our data tables each quarter. We will continue to consider options for broader visual/html- based presentations of our data and are ambitious for continual improvement without overwhelming users.