Prison Sentences: Females
(asked on 18th July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women were sentenced to prison for less than (a) two weeks, (b) one month, (c) three months, (d) six months, (e) one year; and how many women were given a custodial sentence in 2017.
We are committed to doing all we can to address the issues around female offending so we can better protect the public and deliver more effective rehabilitation.
The number of women sentenced to prison for less than two weeks, two weeks to less than one month, one month to less than three months, three months to less than six months, six months to less than one year, one year or more and overall for 2017 can be viewed in the table below.
Number of females sentenced to immediate custody by sentence length in 2017(1)(2) |
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Sentence length | Total |
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Less than 2 weeks | 246 |
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2 weeks to less than 1 month | 1,547 |
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1 month to less than 3 months | 2,197 |
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3 months to less than 6 months | 933 |
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6 months to less than 12 months | 625 |
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12 months or more | 1,688 |
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Total | 7,236 |
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Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice |
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Ref: PQ 165645 |
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(1) Data are given on a principal disposal basis - i.e. reporting the most severe sentence for the principal offence. | |||||||||||
(2) Data relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. | |||||||||||