Trialling Interventions to Increase Early Guilty Pleas

In June 2015 the Behavioural insight Team (BIT) conducted small-scale exploratory research on behalf of MoJ to identify opportunities to intervene to encourage defendants to enter earlier guilty pleas. BIT concluded the most promising, feasible and cost-effective behavioural intervention was through providing defendants with salient messages on the Early Guilty Plea discount , with a possible addition of likely sentences with and without the discount. BIT also recommended that further analysis of available data wou...