A wicked carer, child rapists, a scamming chef and a brother and sister involved in drugs - just some of the criminals to have faced the courts in 2021.
Here's 19 from the Kettering district who were brought to justice last year.
Some remain behind bars, some were jailed and have been released into the community and some were spared from prison.
17. MASON RADFORD
The bungling drug courier arrived at a street in Kettering to deliver cocaine - only to put it through the wrong person's door. He was spared from prison and sentenced to a community order.
18. ANDROS ALLEN
Brute Allen almost severed a Burton Latimer man's nose after he had asked him to leave his home, before fracturing a woman's skull when she intervened. He was deemed dangerous by a judge and given an extended sentence, with eight years in prison.