In the uk, what kind of prison sentence would a repeat offender get for 1. shoplifting 2. burglary?

Princess

In my experience most people get either community service or a suspended sentence, nothing that's going to put them off doing it again!

MISSY G

Nowadays im afraid it would probably be community service, the law is a joke

Frank

under the home office guideline and with prison spaces tight, probably nothing,

It varies from judge to judge at crown court and the magistrates courts wont admit to it, but appear to take prison spaces into account when sentencing... I dont think you can really answer that one... Well thats the impression you get looking at court results !

blonde dyslexic but good looking

nothing, this is the best place on earth to even kill someone u get a free credit card on the state when u get out and a home and what ever u want from the state look at the boys that killed jamie bulger they are millionaires now paid by our state. t

Frank Heyes

Not Long enough

nicemanvery

You'l probably get a council house and a weekly giro !!

nephilim

A smack on the back of the hand & told "what a bad boy you are." & " you need to go on a caricature building hoilday to the Caribbean sea" at the tax payer expence. As all our Prisons are full of SCUM from Europe in wich we CAN NOT deport back to their home land thanks to DIRECTIVE 2004/38. (it's so nice to have control of our own borders "eh")

bobonumpty

sadly community service ,if don't have nice judge 3mths and 2 off for good behaviour .... the law is joke and the victims have no redress ...

203

The actual sentence is irrelevant these days under Tony Blair's rules. Virtually no one serves anything like the full sentence.

pin ball

i dont know who populates the prisons of uk. but its not burglars and shoplifters unless its poor starving pensioners stealing bread. or refusing to pay exhorbitant council tax.they will get locked up to set an example of them. or maybe its the mothers of cot death babies who obviously murdered the child that they loved and cared for.. so, no room in the prison for criminals

mad keith

a slap on the wrist and a mars bar

nicole

SHOPLIFTING=PROBATION

Clive

Where I live, in a Suffolk village, we have community justice. The miscreant is judged by a gathering of the village elders.

The probable sentence for each of the above offences would be two years forced farm labour. Conditions are very harsh and those that survive their sentence normally move to another county.

fallenangel

OH WE ARE BRITISH YOU CAN NEVER GET A STER8 ANSWER FROM US ITS EASIER TO POP OVER AND DO A BIT O SHOP LIFTIN AND SEE FOR YOUR SELF MATE

MissR

You would have to take all the factors into account, is the person intergrated into the community, does he have a family, does he work etc, all of which would effect his sentence. is he remorseful, how bad is his criminal record, remember I jury will not know about his past unless it's deemed in the interests if he does go to trial

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