Hundreds of thousands of crooks could escape jail every year under the proposals by advisers to the Lord Chief Justice.
Those sentenced to short, sharp shock jail terms of less than 12 months for “less serious offences” – including burglary – should be handed community penalties instead, they said.
Even those who are likely to reoffend could walk free from court if it is believed they will go on to commit “non-serious offences”.
And in a further blow, while courts must not be swayed by victims demanding harsher punishments for offenders, the advisers said that judges should listen if they call for leniency.
Critics said the proposals would do nothing to calm the fears of law-abiding members of the public who have lost their faith in the criminal justice system, and would not deter those intent on crime.
Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert said burglary is “deeply upsetting for its victims and should not be dealt with lightly”. He added: “People rightly expect that offenders who invade their home will be dealt with severely, and they have little confidence in weak community sentences which too often aren’t even properly enforced.”
Retired judge Keith Matthewman QC called the proposals “an absolute disgrace”. He said: “Criminals laugh at community sentences. The only thing they are frightened of is prison. Many years ago when I was defending people they would say, ‘Can you get me off with a community sentence?’.
“It is entirely the wrong way to go and I hope judges take no notice of it. The law-abiding public has lost all faith in the criminal justice system and so have I.”
More than 292,000 burglaries were reported to police last year. Burglars are locked up for an average of six months – but the Sentencing Advisory Panel said unpaid work or a curfew could be a better way of punishing them.
The panel – which advises the Sentencing Guidelines Council, chaired by the Lord Chief Justice – said short custodial sentences are not as effective at rehabilitating offenders.
But it stressed that, rather than suggesting longer jail terms, it was saying that “there may be better alternatives to short custodial sentences”.
The panel’s review said: “A presumption in favour of a community order is most likely to be appropriate in relation to the less serious offences of theft and dishonesty, burglary and motoring offences, where there may be clear advantages in a sentence in the community.”
It added: “The risk that an offender may commit further offences of a non-serious nature should not automatically indicate that custody is necessary.”
And after saying victims’ views should only affect a judge if they are calling for leniency rather than harsher sentencing, it admitted the move would “create a certain level of inconsistency”. continues here
I’m surprised that the pro-ethnic lobby are not jumping up and down over this, screaming as always that it is "racist", after all burglary is a predominately white crime, carried out by our own scum and therefore, the non-white community are under represented. There are elements within the white community that, deserve nothing less than contempt, these elements prey on us all and as of yet, there is no deterrent, at least no deterrent offered by the bought and paid for parties. A true nationalist party would you may be assured, lower crime to a recognisable level within five years, yes this would mean carrying the war directly into the enemies camp, instead of the law-abiding living in fear, it would be the criminal community. However, you will go on as always, letting the criminal prey on you including the greatest criminal of all, the lying treacherous avaricious politician, you will continue living in fear because you quite simply believe their lies. 14
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3 Responses to "NOW BURGLARS WILL NOT BE JAILED"9 July 2008 at 16:00
The jails are full. So ways (short of building more prisons) have to be found that avoid locking up the criminals. Giving them a "community sentence" is ideal from the sentimental liberal's point of view. The authorities can pretend that justice is served while nobody gets punished.
Burglary is so commonplace and so many of us are resigned to being burgled that leaving more of them on the streets hardly rates as more than another inconvenience.
It is futile to hope that the law will be rigorously enforced in this country. The moral decay has gone too far for that.
9 July 2008 at 18:33
Alex said...
The jails are full. So ways (short of building more prisons) have to be found that avoid locking up the criminals. Giving them a "community sentence" is ideal from the sentimental liberal's point of view. The authorities can pretend that justice is served while nobody gets punished.
Burglary is so commonplace and so many of us are resigned to being burgled that leaving more of them on the streets hardly rates as more than another inconvenience.
It is futile to hope that the law will be rigorously enforced in this country. The moral decay has gone too far for that.
Thank you Alex for your reply, your quite right of cause, the moral decay has gone too far however, there is still a chance, still a chance to create a safer, less crime riddled environment, if we act strongly. Criminals use force, be it physical or otherwise to prey upon society, force can only ever be resisted and triumphantly defeated by a stronger force, it is for this reason that liberal reasoning fails. Burglary is a terrible crime, it robs the victim/victims of their possessions and their feeling of security, their feeling of having a home, it instils into the victims fear, whilst the burglar, merely moves on to the next victim. There is no better punishment than to deprive one of their freedom, it serves two purposes, the first hopefully acts as a deterrent as the offender has no desire to experience a loss of freedom coupled with the harsh regime again and secondly, it removes a predator from society.
Of course this works for certain offences however, for those classed as more serious there must, for societies good, be a complete removal, no other methods will work, we can pussy-foot around the problem or think more about the “human rights” of the predator and not at all about the victims or we can once again protect society, if the jails are full, built more, we shall have plenty of room if we stop all immigration, because we shall simply not need to commerce, the colossal building project this reprehensible government has envisaged. Also, if we adopt the quite sensible proposal of repatriation, we shall free up considerable space within the penal system, space needed for our own reprobates, you see we can change things we just need a real government, which represents the peoples true interest.
9 July 2008 at 19:27
I want more prisons to be built. I want the criminals locked up without mercy. I want capital punishment for murder. I want to see the repatriation of aliens etc., etc.
But what I (and millions like me) want, we're not going to get.
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