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🗒️ About this episode:
This episode focuses on sentencing of offenders who are guilty of committing a criminal offence. It answers the following questions:

• Who can be sentenced?
• Who passes sentence?
• What types of sentences are there?
• What is the process for reaching a sentencing decision?

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📙Episode links

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• This episode is part of the English Legal System (Module 5): An Introduction to Criminal Procedure

• ⁠A few good videos⁠ with transcripts available from the Sentencing Council.
• ⁠Legal English teacher resources⁠ on sentencing from the Sentencing Council.
• Sentencing guidelines for both the ⁠magistrates’ court⁠ and ⁠Crown Court⁠ from the Sentencing Council.
• ⁠Information about how sentencing works⁠ on Defence barrister Christopher Kessling's helpful site.

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