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Social Enquiry Reports

• An increasingly prevalent feature of the sentencing

process

• Assists the court in sentencing by providing an

impartial and professional assessment of the nature

and causes of a defendant’s relevant background, the

offending behaviour, the risk of re-offending and

interventions necessary to reduce that risk.

• Relevant to the Offender [Second Stage of the

Aguillera methodology]

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