Open date: 07 December 2010

Close date: 04 March 2011

Response date: 21 June 2011

The Ministry of Justice Structural Reform Plan published in July 2010 set out a commitment to introduce a 'rehabilitation revolution' and conduct a review of sentencing policy.

This consultation sets out the resulting proposals which aim to break the destructive cycle of crime and protect the public, through more effectively punishing and rehabilitating offenders and reforming the sentencing framework.

• Breaking the Cycle [PDF 0.59mb]
• Torri’r Cylch: Cosbi, Ailsefydlu a Dedfrydu [PDF 0.41mb]
• Green paper evidence report [PDF 0.45mb]
• Impact assessment [PDF 0.20mb]
• Screening equality impact assessment [PDF 0.40mb]

Consultation response

In December, we launched a consultation (Green Paper) called ‘Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders'.

This asked people what they thought of our proposals to change the ways we punish, sentence and reform offenders to reduce reoffending. The paper focused on the following aims:

• making punishments demanding, robust and credible
• improving how we reform offenders to keep the public safe, cut crime and prevent more people from becoming victims; and
• making offenders pay back to victims and communities for the harm they have caused.

More than 1,200 people responded to the consultation and their ideas and suggestions have helped shape the Government's response.

Read more about sentencing and the Government's response to the Breaking the Cycle consultation

 

• Breaking the cycle - Government response [PDF 0.24mb]
• Torri'r Cylch: Ymateb y Llywodraeth [PDF 0.13mb]
• Impact assessment [PDF 0.12mb]
• Equality impact assessment [PDF 0.11mb]
• Equality impact assessment - Annexes [PDF 0.29mb]