Individualisation at sentencing: the effects of guidelines and "preferred" numbers

Evaluates, using data from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, concerns that UK sentencing guidelines undermine the principle of individualisation at sentence. Details the methodology of the study and its findings on the threats to individualisation posed by the requirement that judges pass a limited range of sentences for a particular category of offence and by the courts' preference for certain sentence lengths over others, known as penal clustering.