Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 2005/06

Table 11
Persons with a charge proved by main penalty, sex and age, 2005/06

	Total	Males					Females					Companies
Main penalty	Number
	Total	All males	Under 16	16 to 20	21 to 30	Over 30	All females	Under 16	16 to 20	21 to 30	Over 30	Companies
Total ¹	128,442	108,186	128	24,285	38,581	45,192	19,902	7	2,941	7,402	9,552	343
Custody	15,967	14,711	21	3,084	6,428	5,178	1,256	2	145	624	485	-
Community sentence	16,481	13,769	16	4,254	5,189	4,310	2,712	-	574	1,180	958	-
Financial penalty	80,871	68,460	21	13,761	23,562	31,116	12,084	1	1,469	4,146	6,468	316
Other sentence	15,123	11,246	70	3,186	3,402	4,588	3,850	4	753	1,452	1,641	27
	Row per cent
Main penalty	Total	Males					Females					Companies
Main penalty	Total	All males	Under 16	16 to 20	21 to 30	Over 30	All females	Under 16	16 to 20	21 to 30	Over 30	Companies
Total	*100*	84	*	19	30	35	15	*	2	6	7	*
Custody	*100*	92	*	19	40	32	8	*	1	4	3	-
Community sentence	*100*	84	*	26	31	26	16	-	3	7	6	-
Financial penalty	*100*	85	*	17	29	38	15	*	2	5	8	*
Other sentence	*100*	74	*	21	22	30	25	*	5	10	11	*
	Column per cent
Main penalty	Total	Males					Females					Companies
Main penalty	Total	All males	Under 16	16 to 20	21 to 30	Over 30	All females	Under 16	16 to 20	21 to 30	Over 30	Companies
Total	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*	*100*
Custody	12	14	16	13	17	11	6	29	5	8	5	-
Community sentence	13	13	13	18	13	10	14	-	20	16	10	-
Financial penalty	63	63	16	57	61	69	61	14	50	56	68	92
Other sentence	12	10	55	13	9	10	19	57	26	20	17	8

1 Includes a small number of cases where age and sex are unknown

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