It bears monitoring and constant vigilance.
People with serious convictions have their legal counsel successfully argue that imprisonment would have an adverse impact on local employment, dependants etc.
In the past, DV action was frequently dropped when it relied on women's cooperation because they were open to coercion that it would be a disaster for the family if the man went to prison.
Remember how shocked some people were by Huw Edwards' penalty? I've seen family members of a child who has been SA by the man actually plead that greater harm will come from losing the income and they want a non-custodial sentence. (US court streams have this on quite a regular basis.)
Constant vigilance at a minimum.
NB: this is on my mind because the National Safeguarding team is supporting the introduction of new statutory duties on various bodies, including NHSE and ICBs, to include domestic and intimate partner abuse, sexual violence etc. They will also look to mandate reporting of child SA.
I wonder how many women and children will not report to healthcare for assistance. But, I know it works in other countries so I want to see how it is implemented.