Advice sought after:
I listen to and dictate BBC programs (podcasts) to deter and delay dementia. And oftentimes I come to words and phrases which I cannot catch. It would be appreciated if you can tell me what they are saying and also correct my incorrect catching in the attempted transcript.
Thanks in advance.
BBC Thinking Allowed: Life imprisonment
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v8wt
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Ben, as I understand that your research ???(1)??? out recognition of those convicted of murder are now serving far longer sentences ???(2)??? they did twenty years ago. Not only that but also many more of these prisoners. Now, tell me a little about the background of these changes. What cause this escalation?
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There is very little evidence that this escalation is to do with any change in the seriousness of murders, ???(3)??? of murders. The explanation is much more to do with changes in the registration. So mainly the 2003 Criminal Justice Act and subsequent amendments to it. That increased the starting point tariff which is the minimum time that the prisoner has to serve before they can be considered for release. So, in 2003, the average tariff for murder was twelve and a half years. By 2016, it was over twenty one years. So it's fairly rapid and significant increase.
0357
The other thing that is relevant is the use of joint enterprise, which is fairly complex piece of law that means that an individual can be convicted of someone else's crime, if the court believe that they could have foreseen that the primary offender was likely to commit it. So that it was nature of the law that at the time we did our research. So what I really mean ???(4)??? several people can be found guilty for the single murder. And all of this means that the sentences that two or three decades ago were considered very unusual and almost unsurvivable and now much more common place.
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