Appendix: Qualifying offences for MAPPA categories 1 and 2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2023
Summary
This appendix sets out the offences which currently meet the eligibility criteria for MAPPA categories 1 and 2 (see chapter one, page 17).
Relevant sexual offences (MAPPA category 1)
These are the thresholds that must be met before an offender becomes subject to the notification requirements of Part 2 of the 2003 Sexual Offences Act (and thereby becomes a MAPPA category 1 case).
Indecent photographs of children under 16 (1978 Protection of Children Act, Section 1)
Where the offender is under 18: 12 months’ imprisonment
Where the offender is 18 or above: automatic registration
Importing indecent photographs of children under 16 (1979 Customs and Excise Management Act, Section 170 and 1876 Customs Consolidation Act, Section 42)
Where the offender is under 18: 12 months’ imprisonment
Where the offender is 18 or above: automatic registration
Possession of indecent photographs of children under 16 (1988 Criminal Justice Act, Section 160)
Where the offender is under 18: 12 months’ imprisonment
Where the offender is 18 or above: automatic registration
Rape (1), Assault by penetration (2)
Automatic registration
Sexual assault (3)
Where the offender is under 18: 12 months’ imprisonment
Where the offender is 18 or above, and at least one of the following applies:
• the victim was under 18;
• the offender received a prison sentence;
• was detained in a hospital;
• was made the subject of a 12-month community sentence.
Causing sexual activity without consent (4) Rape of a child under 13 (5) Assault of a child under 13 by penetration (6)
Automatic registration
Sexual assault of a child under 13 (7)
Where the offender is under 18: 12 months’ imprisonment
Where the offender is 18 or above: automatic registration
Causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity (8) Child sex offences committed by adults (9-12)
Automatic registration
Child sex offences committed by children or young persons (13)
(The offender will always be under 18): 12 months’ imprisonment
Arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence (14)
Where the offender is under 18: 12 months’ imprisonment
Where the offender is 18 or above: automatic registration
Meeting a child following sexual grooming (15)
Automatic registration
Abuse of a position of trust (16-19)
Where the offender fulfils any of the following:
• received a prison sentence;
• was detained in a hospital;
• was made the subject of a 12-month community sentence.
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- Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements and Youth Justice , pp. 135 - 145Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2009