This report examines the gulf between sentencing knowledge and practice, and makes recommendations regarding the measures that need to be undertaken to bridge that gap, so that law-makers can bring sentencing practice in line with current knowledge and make it fairer and more efficient.
The author highlights that if the proposals in this report are adopted, the incarceration rate could be reduced by up to 30%, and far less tax-payer dollars will be spent on prisons and the community will be safer.
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