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cjgl-14068	Minson, Shona; Sikand, Maya; Woodrow, Pippa	Mitigating Motherhood: Centering the Rights of Children and Mothers in Criminal Sentencing in England and Wales	2025	27	.pdf	application/pdf	10342	400	53	Despite incremental progress, inconsistencies in lower courts persist, with sentencers often failing to adequately weigh the disproportionate impact of imprisonment on dependent children and pregnant women. In 2001, the civil division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales formally recognized the need to consider dependent children when sentencing a mother in a public law case that challenged prison policy on the upper-age limit for babies living in prison Mother and Baby Units.2 However, it has taken more than twenty years for the criminal courts to catch up and formally recognize the true impact of a sentence on dependent children or a woman’s pregnancy as an essential part of the sentencing calculus when a woman is sentenced.3 In this Article, we analyze the development of sentencing practice over the past two decades to understand the process of change.	cache/cjgl-14068.pdf	txt/cjgl-14068.txt