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Penalties and sentences
- Being charged with a crime
- How sentences are worked out
- Community sentences
- Punishments for antisocial behaviour
- Drinking Banning Order (DBO)
- Drink-drive rehabilitation courses
- Drugs penalties
Police and being arrested
- Being arrested: your rights
- Being stopped by the police while driving
- Police powers of arrest: your rights
- Police cautions, warnings and penalty notices
- Police powers to stop and search: your rights
- Protests and marches: letting the police know
- Get a police check on someone that has contact with a child
- Get a copy of your police records
- Police and crime commissioners
- Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and special constables
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Includes going to court, paying fines, appealing a sentence, jury service and tribunals
Reporting crimes
Includes antisocial behaviour, abuse, benefit fraud and terrorism
Compensation and victim support
Includes criminal injuries compensation and other victim support
Penalties, sentences and police
Includes being charged with a crime, cautions, community sentences and police powers
Prisons and probation
Sentencing, probation and support for families of prisoners
Young people and the law
Includes legal rights, youth offending teams and crime prevention
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