In undertaking this review, the Sentencing Council should:
- provide sentencing statistics for convictions and penalty notices (where relevant) over a five-year period;
- provide information on the characteristics of offenders, sentence type and length;
- provide background information, including:
- the key sentencing principles and reasoning employed by sentencing judges;
- the mitigating subjective features of offenders; and
- any other significant factors considered in sentencing decisions that explain how courts come to their final decision on sentence (which may be done using case-studies or collation of predominate themes across cases);
- consider whether the standard non parole periods where identified remain appropriate;
- consider whether offences for which penalty notices are available remain appropriate;
- consider whether the maximum penalties for the offences are appropriate with reference to other jurisdictions;
- consider whether any existing summary offences should be made indictable offences;
- consider any other matter the Council considers relevant.
