Part 4: Prisoners Licence conditions on release following referral Section 65: Assessing etc. risks posed by controlling or coercive offenders
This section makes amendments to the multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) regime set out in sections 325 to 327 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. This ensures automatic MAPPA management of individuals convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship, who are sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment or more or receive a suspended sentence where the custodial term is 12 months or more. Currently, they can be MAPPA managed on a discretionary basis.
	This section amends s. 327(4A) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 by adding the offence of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship as defined in section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 to the list of offences contained within it.