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The fine, a payment imposed as a penalty, is the oldest non custodial penalty available to the courts. Although it was available in the early twentieth century, fines were not issued; this was due to high levels of poverty which meant that offenders could not afford to pay their fines and therefore ended up in prison.1 Major reforms throughout the following years, modernised the penalty. Fines were allowed to be paid in instalments and this reduced the amount of people who ended up in prison. This can be seen when comparing the 75,000 people who were put in prison in 1913 and 5300 who were in 1919. The second reform was introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 1948, it extended the amount of offences the fine was used for and the fine accounted for 27.2% of sentences in 1938, after the act, this soared to 44.8% in 1959. The 1980's bought...

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