{"id":1219,"date":"2009-11-01T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2009-11-01T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:41:43","slug":"report-criticises-criminal-justice-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Report criticises criminal justice policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1220\" style=\"width:107px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Sarah-Payne-murdered-in-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Payne murdered in 2000\" width=\"107\" height=\"109\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Sarah Payne murdered in 2000<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nGordon Brown&#8217;s adviser on victims&#8217; rights, Sara Payne, has produced a report that will be published this week criticising government criminal justice policy<br \/>\nShe calls for more &#8220;honest&#8221; sentencing system, improved trauma counselling for relatives of murder and manslaughter victims and a fresh approach to how to treat victims and calls for more police officers to combat antisocial behaviour.<br \/>\nHer findings will come as an embarrassment to the government, which has made improving the treatment of victims of crime a top priority.<br \/>\nEarly-release schemes and decisions by prison governors often mean six-month jail terms are reduced to six weeks and 28-day sentences are waived to ease overcrowding.<br \/>\nIn July 2000, Sara Payne\u2019s daughter was abducted and murdered by a paedophile Roy Whiting who was sentenced to life for her murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Payne murdered in 2000 Gordon Brown&#8217;s adviser on victims&#8217; rights, Sara Payne, has produced a report that will be published this week criticising government criminal justice policy She calls for more &#8220;honest&#8221; sentencing system, improved trauma counselling for relatives of murder and manslaughter victims and a fresh approach to how to treat victims and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}