Suspended sentences on the rise

05/08/2011

Since their introduction in 2000, the use of suspended sentences has doubled in the local courts and risen by 60 per cent in the higher criminal courts. Although suspended sentences are meant to be imposed only on offenders whose offence is serious enough to warrant a prison sentence, they are being used on offenders who, prior to the introduction of suspended sentences, would never have received a prison sentence. Learn more>

5 August 2011