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Domestic Abuse Recorded By the Police in Scotland, 1 January - 31 December 2003

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DOMESTIC ABUSE RECORDED BY THE POLICE IN SCOTLAND

Incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police, by location of incident, as a percentage of incidents where location is known. 1999 - 2003

Table 11 (a)

Percentage

SCOTLAND

1 April -
31 December
1999 (1)

1 January -
31 December
2000 (1)

1 January -
31 December
2001 (2)

1 January -
31 December
2002

1 January -
31 December
2003

Joint home

48.6

45.9

47.1

45.5

43.2

Victim's home

38.8

40.4

38.7

38.8

40.5

Perpetrator's home

3.6

4.1

4.3

4.8

5.4

Other house

1.8

2.3

2.6

2.8

3.0

Street

3.9

5.2

5.2

5.6

6.2

Licensed premises

*

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.7

Other

2.9

1.5

1.5

1.9

1.2

TOTAL

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

1. Excludes Central Police Force as Central recorded the location of the incident in the following three categories only, 'Home', 'Street' and 'Other' in 1999 and 2000.
2. The 2001 figures for Scotland have been changed from those published in 2002 due to revised figures being submitted for Central and Fife police forces.

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