Member

All ethnic minority offenders, but in particular Romani, Roma and Irish Traveller offenders, experience disproportionate outcomes at every stage of the criminal justice system. The Sentencing Council’s revised guidelines, Imposition of Community and Custodial Sentences, were an important step towards addressing historical racial disparities in the sentencing of ethnic minority offenders, through the requirement for a pre-sentence report. The Sentencing Council remains of the view that its revised guidelines as drafted are necessary and appropriate. This is the view of the Traveller Movement, and I share it.