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Crime & Disorder Act 1998

Home Office Guidance

The Crime and Disorder Act received Royal Assent on 31 July 1998. The Home Office has issued various circulars and pieces of guidance to support implementation of the Act.

The available material covers the following topics:

Youth Crime

  • Local Child Curfews

  • Aim of Youth Justice System

  • Youth Offending Teams (Youth Justice framework document)

  • Youth Court

  • Final warning

  • Supervision orders

  • Parenting orders

  • Child safety orders

  • Reparation orders

  • Action Plan orders

  • Secure remands (including payment arrangements)

  • Police powers against truancy

  • Detention and training order

Combating crime & anti-social behaviour

  • Crime and disorder partnerships

  • Racially aggravated offences

  • Anti-social behaviour orders

  • Sex offender orders

  • Face coverings

Measures to reduce delays

  • Powers for single justices etc

  • Bail

  • TV links

  • Time limits

More effective sentencing

  • Information sharing

  • Home detention curfew

  • Sentence calculation

  • Extended sentences (and pre-release of prisoners serving extended sentences)

  • Drug treatment and testing order

  • Supervision following recall and return

Getting copies

These documents are all available from the Crime & Disorder Act pages on the Home Office website

Last update: Thursday, September 21, 2006

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