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42 Directive 2012/29/EU of the European
Parliament and of the Council, establishing
minimum standards for the rights, support
and protection of victims of crime, and
replacing Council Framework Decision
2001/220/JHA, 25th October 2012,
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/
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56 Open Society Foundation, Presumption
of Guilt: The Global Overuse Of Pretrial
Detention, 2014, Executive Summary, p1.
43 See European Forum on Restorative
Justice, RJ Symposium and AGM in Bilbao,
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59 Penal Reform International, Community
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44 The Scottish Government, Delivering
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45 The Scottish Government, Delivery of
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46 Dr Mariana Semini-Tutulani, The restorative
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47 Law of Georgia, Juvenile Justice Code,
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48 European Forum for Restorative Justice,
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49 ‘More Restorative Justice Centres to be
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50 ‘Alberta Justice adding £4.5 million for
services, tools to aid victims of crime’,
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51 ‘From November, survivors of sex crimes
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Trends in the use of imprisonment
52 Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights, International Covenant on Civil and
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for Non-Custodial Measures (The Tokyo
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53 Committee Against Torture, Eighth annual
report of the Subcommittee on Prevention
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54 ‘Meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
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55 Roy Walmsley, Institute for Criminal
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57 Roy Walmsley, Institute for Criminal
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58 Ibid.
60 Open Society Foundation, Presumption
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61 Juvenile Justice Advocates International,
Children in Pretrial Detention: Promoting
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Executive Summary, p1.
62 Raymund E. Narg, ‘Exploring the
consequences of prolonged pretrial
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63 ‘Why remandees are granted bail but still
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64 ‘California scraps cash bail system
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65 ‘ACLU Of California Changes Position to
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66 European Court of Human Rights, Case
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67 Juvenile Justice Advocates International,
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68 ‘Mexico: Reject Bill Expanding Pretrial
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news/2018/12/17/mexico-reject-billexpanding-pretrial-detention.
69 Institute for Criminal Policy Research,
World Prison Brief Database,
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occupancy-level?field_region_taxonomy_
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70 ‘Supreme Court strikes down law on nonbailable offences’, MyJoyOnline, 5 May 2016,
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71 Fair Trials, The Disappearing Trial: Towards
a rights-based approach to trial waiver
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72 Ibid.
73 ‘The Great Escape – prison crisis eases
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74 Jessica Jacobson, Catherine Heard, Helen
Fair, Institute for Criminal Policy Research
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March 2017, p22.
75 See for example Julian V. Roberts, Mike
Hough, Jessica Jacobson, Nick Moon,
‘Public Attitudes to Sentencing Purposes
and Sentencing Factors: An Empirical
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2009, pp771–782.
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76 ‘A New Sensibility: An analysis of public
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77 Giovanni Mastrobuoni and David Rivers,
Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence,
7 February 2016, p4.
78 Scottish Sentencing Council, Principles
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guideline, Effective from 26 November
2018, p4.
79 ‘Community service for offenders with short
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capetimes/news/community-service-foroffenders-with-short-sentences-to-alleviateprison-overcrowding-18413400.
80 Ministers consider ending jail terms of six
months or less’, BBC News, 12 January
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81 The Cornell Centre on the Death Penalty
Worldwide, Judged for More Than Her
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82 Ibid.
83 ‘Report: black men get longer sentences
for the same federal crime as white men’,
VOX, 17th November 2017, www.vox.com/
identities/2017/11/17/16668770/ussentencing-commission-race-booker.
84 UN General Assembly, United Nations
Standard Minimum Rules for Non-Custodial
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Rule 7.1.
85 Centre for Justice Innovation, The changing
use of pre-sentence reports, 2018.
86 Danielle L. Kehl, Priscilla Guo and Samuel
Kessler, Berkman Klein Center for Internet
& Society, Harvard Law School, Algorithms
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2017, p8.
87 ‘Computer says no bail – does AI reduce or
increase human bias?’, Transform Justice,
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88 ‘Profile-based risk assessment for US
pre-trial incarceration, release decisions’,
Human Rights Watch, 1 June 2018,
www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/01/q-profilebased-risk-assessment-us-pretrialincarceration-release-decisions.
89 Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and
Lauren Kirchner, ‘Machine Bias’, ProPublica,
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machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminalsentencing.
90 Ibid.
91 European Commission for the Efficiency
of Justice, European Ethical Charter on
the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial
Systems and Their Environment, Adopted
at the 31st plenary meeting of the CEPEJ
(Strasbourg, 3–4 December 2018).
92 Ibid.
93 The following countries voted against the
resolution: Afghanistan, Bahamas, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana,
Brunei Darussalam, China, Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Grenada, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan,
Kuwait, Maldives, Nauru, Oman, Papua
New Guinea, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines,
Singapore, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic,
Trinidad and Tobago, the United States,
Yemen, Zimbabwe, www.un.org/en/
ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/
RES/73/175.
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