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Conversation about the laws making headlines, and the laws that shape everyday life.

The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.

Weekly conversation that will give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it's unpicking a landmark legal ruling, explaining how laws are made or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.

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The Law Show: The Coalition's Sentencing Reform Plans

The Coalition's Sentencing Reform Plans

14/06/2011

BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show, The Coalition's Sentencing Reform Plans

Joshua Rozenberg explores the thinking behind the Justice Secretary's sentencing reforms.

The Justice Secretary's sentencing reform plans are proving contentious. Joshua Rozenberg explores the thinking behind them and their chances of successfully cutting reoffending.

The plans of Kenneth Clarke, the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, for changes to sentencing in England and Wales have already proved highly controversial. But how are they likely to work in practice and what are their effects going to be? 

Joshua Rozenberg explores what the thinking behind the reforms is and how the Justice Secretary's plans for higher discounts on sentences for "early pleas" of guilty by offenders came unstuck. He also talks to a leading criminologist about a radical new approach towards the early identification of potentially serious criminals. He discovers how reliable the evidence for this strategy is and what benefits it might offer the police, the courts - and politicians seeking to achieve a smaller prison population. 

Producer Simon Coates.

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