Crime and justice statistics

Introduction

Within the Justice Analytical Services Division, statisticians work within two policy-focused, multi-disciplinary analytical teams which include social researchers, economists and performance analysts. The teams provide statistical information and support relating to police and community safety, court affairs and offenders, prisons and matters relating to civil and international law.

Statistics collections

• Civil Justice Statistics in Scotland
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Justice Analytical Services data report
• Criminal justice monitoring data
• Criminal Justice Social Work Statistics
• Criminal Proceedings in Scotland
• Domestic Abuse Statistics
• Drug Seizures Statistics
• Firearm Offence Statistics
• Homicide Statistics
• Police Strength Statistics
• Prison Statistics
• Reconviction of Offenders Statistics
• Recorded Crime Statistics
• Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
• Scottish Victimisation Telephone Survey

High-level summaries of statistics trends

• Crime and justice statistics: high-level summary of statistics trends 2019

Occasional publications

• Women in the justice system: evidence review
• Costs of the criminal justice system in Scotland dataset: 2016-17 (published December 2019)
• Non-sexual violence in Scotland: report
• Domestic abuse analytical paper
• Assaults on police officers and emergency workers: 1999-00 to 2008-09
• Crime and macroeconomic performance in Scotland
• Assessing the scale and impact of illicit drug markets in Scotland

About crime and justice statistics

• Strategy/plan | 02 July 2019

  Crime and justice statistics: justice analytical programme 2019-20

  The 2019-20 programme of the justice analytical services team, who are responsible for crime and justice statistics in the Scottish Government.

• About crime and justice statistics: a resource for students

Justice Analytical Services Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Report

Monthly report with an overview of key justice and safer communities statistics. 

These reports replace the previous justice and safer communities monthly brief and also the Coronavirus (COVID-19): Justice Analytical Services data report

• Justice Analytical Services (JAS) safer communities and justice statistics monthly data report: June 2022 edition
• Justice Analytical Services Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: May 2022 edition