Recorded crime in Scotland: August 2020

Official Statistics on crimes and offences recorded by the police in Scotland for August 2020.


Table 1: Crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, August 2019 and August 2020

August % Change since
Crime group 2019 2020 August 2019
Total crimes1 20,730 19,927 -4%
Non-sexual crimes of violence 775 828 7%
Homicide etc. 8 10 n/r
Attempted murder & serious assault 340 396 16%
Robbery 158 138 -13%
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 144 122 -15%
Other violence 125 162 30%
Sexual crimes 1,128 1,091 -3%
Rape & attempted rape 216 164 -24%
Sexual assault 439 356 -19%
Crimes associated with prostitution 3 4 n/r
Other sexual crimes 470 567 21%
Crimes of dishonesty 9,159 8,118 -11%
Housebreaking 1,030 881 -14%
Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) 142 112 -21%
Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP 226 162 -28%
Theft of a motor vehicle 382 355 -7%
Shoplifting 2,570 1,852 -28%
Other theft 3,614 3,036 -16%
Fraud 866 1,354 56%
Other dishonesty 329 366 11%
Fire-raising, vandalism etc. 3,963 3,954 0%
Fire-raising 191 196 3%
Vandalism etc. 3,772 3,758 0%
Other crimes 5,705 5,936 4%
Crimes against public justice 1,727 2,210 28%
Handling offensive weapons 774 953 23%
Not used in other criminal activity 322 411 28%
Used in other criminal activity 452 542 20%
Drugs 3,187 2,766 -13%
Other 17 7 -59%

1. The total figure for recorded crime excludes the new crimes being recorded under the recently enacted coronavirus legislation. Please see the Crimes recorded under coronavirus legislation section for more information.

The symbol ‘n/r’ is used to denote where a percentage change figure is not reported. This is done if the denominator is less than ten as any resulting figure may be misleading.

Contact

Email: Justice_Analysts@gov.scot

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