Below are some of the more serious cases to have passed through Sheffield Crown Court recently including a robbery, an affray and a man who used an imitation firearm to threaten students.
Offenders have been involved in a street brawl, a drunken assault on a woman, a robbery of a woman at a cash machine and a robbery where an elderly man was assaulted.
One drug-fuelled driver was also involved in a police pursuit and damaged parked cars before he was captured.
But judges have punished these offenders appropriately with custodial sentences of different lengths.
1. Four jailed for affray
Four men have been jailed after a street brawl in Rotherham between two groups of Rotherham United fans. Cory Andrews, 26, of Tickhill Road, Maltby; Sam Anscombe, 29, of Walesby Lane, Ollerton; Brady Stoner, 24, of Nelson Road, Maltby; and Joshua Simpson, 25, of Everson Close, Maltby pleaded guilty to affray. Simpson was sentenced to 15 months, Anscombe to 18 months and Andrews to 18 months. Stoner was sentenced to two-and-a-half years made up of 18 months for affray and further time for drug offences. Pictured (clockwise from top) are Stoner, Andews, Anscombe and Simpson. Photo: South Yorkshire Police
2. Ashley Stocks
Pictured is Ashley Stocks, aged 31, of Greenwood Avenue, Sheffield, who has been jailed at Sheffield Crown Court for five-years and four-months after he admitted a robbery at the Hollinsend Premier store, on Nodder Road, Sheffield. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Stocks tried to exchange two bottles of Budweiser before he became aggressive and attacked the shopkeeper at the Hollinsend Premier store, on Nodder Road, Woodthorpe, Sheffield. Stocks was also banned from going near the Hollinsend store for ten years. Photo: South Yorkshire Police
3. Ben Taylor
Pictured is Ben Taylor, aged 28, of Hallwood Road, Chapeltown, Sheffield, who pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage after he attacked his partner and damaged her home. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Taylor beat the woman to the head with a broomstick, slapped her, pulled her into the bedroom by her hair, stuck his thumbs into her eyes and repeatedly punched her. Taylor was sentenced to 18 months of custody and was given a three-year restraining order. Photo: South Yorkshire Police
4. Gareth Gratton
Pictured is Gareth Gratton who has been jailed for four-years and two-months after threatening and warning students at a loud party to shut up. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Gratton, aged 34, of Mawfa Avenue, Norton, Sheffield, pointed the firearm at students and waved it around at the party at a property on Shoreham Street, Sheffield. The defendant, who has previous convictions, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear or violence after the incident on July 12. Photo: South Yorkshire Police