CrJ/1999/8 Published December 1999
1. Introduction
2. Key Points
3. Criminal Court Proceedings in Context
4. Persons Proceeded Against
5. Type of Court
6. Verdicts
7. Age and Sex of Persons with a Charge Proved
8. Sentencing
Sentencing by Age and Sex of Offender
9. Offending while on Bail
10. Characteristics of Individual Offenders
11. Appendix of Tables
Table 1 Summary of known action, 1988-1998
Table 2(a) Persons proceeded against by main crime
or offence, 1988-1998
Table 2(b) Persons proceeded against by main crime
or offence, 1988-1998
Table 3 Persons called to court by type of court,
1988-1998
Table 4 Outcome of court proceedings by main crime
or offence, 1998
Table 5 Number of persons with a charge proved
per 1,000 population by age and sex, 1988-1998
Table 6(a) Persons with a charge proved by age, sex
and main crime or offence, 1998 (Males)
Table 6(b) Persons with a charge proved by age, sex
and main crime or offence, 1998 (Females)
Table 7 Persons with a charge proved by main penalty,
1988-1998
Table 8(a) Persons with a charge proved by main penalty
and main crime or offence, 1998 (Numbers)
Table 8(b) Persons with a charge proved by main penalty
and main crime or offence, 1998 (Row percentages)
Table 8(c) Persons with a charge proved by main penalty
and main crime or offence, 1998 (Column percentages)
Table 9 Use of compensation orders as a main or
secondary punishment by main crime or offence, 1988-1998
Table 10 Per cent of persons with charge proved receiving
custodial sentences by main crime or offence, 1988-1998
Table 11 Persons receiving a custodial sentence by
length of sentence and main crime or offence, 1998
Table 12 Persons with a charge proved by age, sex and
main penalty, 1998
Table 13 Persons with a charge proved by main penalty,
age and sex, 1988-1998
Table 14 Persons with a charge proved by main crime
or offence and whether offender was on bail, 1998
Table 15 Individuals with at least one charge proved
in 1998 by age at 30 June 1998, sex and number of charges proved
Annex: Notes on Statistics Used in this Bulletin
Scottish Executive Statistical Services
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