Community Sentencing By Proxy?

Local Communities to Help Courts with Sentencing
DCA Press Release
29 December 2006
New "Community Impact Statements" will allow local communities to
tell the court before it sentences about the effect of crime in
their area. In a further initiative, local community
organisations will be asked to tell the court what unpaid work
they would like offenders to be sentenced to in order to help
improve communities affected by crime. These two new initiatives
will be part of the Community Justice Programme, which aims to
connect courts to their local communities and build the
confidence of local communities in the criminal justice system.