Crimes of Violence: Sentencing

(asked on 11th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) community and (b) immediate custodial sentences were issued for convictions of violent offences in each year since 1993.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 19th February 2019

Data on the number of offenders sentenced for violent offences, and the number of offenders sentenced overall, can be viewed in the table.

This data covers the period 1993 – 2017 and is broken down by offenders who were sentenced to immediate custody, and those who received a community sentence.

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