This special issue of the British Journal of Community Justice, co-curated and edited in collaboration with the CJA, focuses on the Sentencing Act and its wider impact. We invited reactions to or implications of the review, from stakeholders across the criminal justice system: people with lived experience, practitioners, policy makers, academics, post-graduate students and researchers.
Our expert authors have written compellingly on subjects including: women’s justice, racial inequality, AI, probation, community interventions, prison. They have also analysed what’s missing from the review – highlighting important omissions and review blind spots. The issue shows that there is much more work to be done by decision makers at all levels to ensure that the Sentencing Act is part of a much bigger change for criminal justice.