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• Robbers armed with guns or knives to receive longer sentences

  21 Oct 2014: Sentencing Council recommends increased punishment for those who use the weapons – or threaten to use them

• Teesside judge far too soft on domestic abusers, say three police commissioners

  18 Oct 2014: Jamie Doward: Crime commissioners call for investigation into judge who, they claim, hands out lenient sentences to men who assault their partners

• John Grisham is wrong – those who watch child abuse images cause harm

  16 Oct 2014: Suzanne Ost: The thriller writer’s claims about the severity of sentencing in the US are simplistic, damaging and inappropriate

• Woman has sentence increased for sexual activity with 14-year-old boy

  3 Oct 2014: Court of appeal judges rule Karen Ackland, 44, must serve two years instead of original suspended sentence

• Court deliberates on Indigenous disadvantage in sentencing offenders

  1 Oct 2014: NSW criminal court to examine whether the social disadvantage of Indigenous Australians should be considered when sentencing

• Tougher penalties urged for people who name rape victims on social media

  9 Jul 2014: Law may need to change to give better protection to people entitled to anonymity, House of Lords committee hears

• Knife crime clampdown wins Commons backing, leaving Lib Dems isolated

  17 Jun 2014: Labour and Conservatives unite to back mandatory jail sentences for anyone caught twice in possession of a knife

• Hitmen who killed boy by mistake lose appeal against 40-year jail terms

  17 Jun 2014: Appeal court judges say sentence is 'just punishment' for Jason Richards and Ben Hope, who stabbed Aamir Siddiqi in Cardiff

• Life sentences for serious cyberattacks are proposed in Queen's speech

  4 Jun 2014: Any cyberattackers who cause 'loss of life, serious injury or damage to national security' could face full sentence

• Jail fraudsters for longer, judges told

  23 May 2014: Guidelines from Sentencing Council instruct judiciary to make harm to victims a central factor in deciding on custody

• Joss Stone murder plotters' jail sentences reduced

  20 May 2014: Appeal court cuts Kevin Liverpool's minimum term to six and a half years and Junior Bradshaw's sentence to 10 years

• London 'riot crimes' fell in months after courts' tough sentences, study finds

  11 May 2014: Crackdown after August 2011 riots deterred many criminals, although there was a spike in non-violent offences

• Knife crime victim condemns Nick Clegg's veto on stricter sentencing

  9 May 2014: Alan Whitfield, who has undergone nine operations since attack by a repeat offender last year, says sentences are too lenient

• Nick Clegg hosts his LBC phone-in: Politics live blog

  8 May 2014: Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Nick Clegg hosting his LBC phone-in

• Martin Rowson on the coalition's knife crime row – cartoon

  Cartoon, 2 May 2014:

  Lib Dems claim Tories leaked contents of letter in which Danny Alexander rejected Chris Grayling plans to shake up knife crime sentences

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