Policy paper

Transforming the criminal justice response to domestic abuse

The Domestic Abuse Commissioner's vision for transformation of the criminal justice response to domestic abuse, entitled 'Shifting the scales'.

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바카라 사이트˜Shifting the scales: Transforming the criminal justice response to domestic abuse바카라 사이트™ sets out the Domestic Abuse Commissioner바카라 사이트™s vision for reform of the criminal justice system to ensure a holistic, multi-agency approach to all victims and survivors of domestic abuse. It is the Commissioner바카라 사이트™s first report on the criminal justice system.

Bringing together previous reports and reviews, insight from practitioners, new data and, crucially, survivor voice, it proposes 12 recommendations across 4 themes which, when implemented together, would transform the criminal justice response to domestic abuse.

The report is aimed at government, parliamentarians, and criminal justice leaders as they work to improve the criminal justice system바카라 사이트™s response to domestic abuse. It was laid in Parliament on Wednesday 22 January under the Commissioner바카라 사이트™s powers in Section 8 (6) of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.

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Published 22 January 2025
Last updated 15 April 2025 show all updates
  1. Added Welsh translation of the document.

  2. First published.

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