Title page
Contents
Summary 5
1. The Bill: An overview 7
1.1. What would the Criminal Justice Bill do? 7
1.2. Where and when will the Bill take effect? 12
2. Criminal offences 13
2.1. Articles for use in serious crime and vehicle theft 13
2.2. SIM farms and telecommunications-facilitated fraud 19
2.3. Knives and offensive weapons 24
2.4. Encouraging or assisting serious self-harm 28
2.5. Intimate photographs or films and voyeurism 29
2.6. Corporate criminal liability 32
3. Police powers 34
3.1. Drug testing 34
3.2. Seizure of bladed articles 36
3.3. Stolen goods 38
3.4. Suspension of IP addresses and domain names 41
3.5. Access to driver licensing records 46
4. Sentencing and offender management 48
4.1. Attendance at sentencing hearings 48
4.2. Aggravating factor: grooming 51
4.3. Aggravating factor: Domestic homicide - end of relationship 52
4.4. Transfer of prisoners to foreign prisons 55
4.5. Management of offenders convicted of coercive or controlling behaviour 60
4.6. Extension of polygraph conditions 63
5. Proceeds of crime 65
5.1. Background 65
5.2. The Bill 69
6. Serious crime prevention orders 75
6.1. Background 75
6.2. The Bill 77
7. Nuisance begging and rough sleeping 81
7.1. Background 81
7.2. The Bill 89
7.3. Comment 96
8. Anti-social behaviour 100
8.1. Background 100
8.2. The Bill 102
9. The police 108
9.1. Ethical policing and a duty of candour 108
9.2. Police misconduct: appeals 109