Statistical Bulletin Crime and Justice Series: Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 2006/07

Table 12: Persons (excluding companies) with a charge proved by main penalty, sex and age, 1997/98-2006/07

		1997/98	1998/99	1999/00	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	% change 05/06-06/07
Total ¹		148,614	136,506	127,526	112,832	121,254	127,417	133,146	134,547	132,423	138,525	5
Custody ²		16,299	16,027	15,894	15,656	16,499	17,326	16,584	16,716	16,670	18,157	9
Males	Total ³	15,434	15,059	14,884	14,723	15,373	16,109	15,282	15,342	15,385	16,777	9
	Under 21	4,371	4,327	4,056	3,979	3,773	3,518	3,187	3,001	3,275	3,517	7
	21-30	6,955	6,664	6,985	6,850	7,339	7,891	7,492	7,244	6,700	7,211	8
	Over 30	4,108	4,066	3,842	3,893	4,260	4,700	4,603	5,096	5,410	6,049	12
Females	Total ³	865	968	1,010	933	1,126	1,217	1,302	1,374	1,285	1,380	7
	Under 21	174	247	325	299	307	258	250	224	152	259	70
	21-30	460	475	497	454	531	638	654	717	636	703	11
	Over 30	231	246	188	180	288	321	398	433	497	418	-16
Community sentence ²		12,515	12,921	12,366	12,488	13,800	15,939	15,565	17,013	17,314	17,376	0
Males	Total ³	10,775	11,000	10,389	10,633	11,658	13,341	12,971	14,265	14,480	14,683	1
	Under 21	4,505	4,669	4,132	3,997	4,128	4,563	4,083	4,425	4,528	4,869	8
	21-30	3,866	3,884	3,754	3,963	4,469	5,136	5,055	5,466	5,433	5,384	-1
	Over 30	2,399	2,444	2,502	2,673	3,059	3,642	3,833	4,374	4,519	4,430	-2
Females	Total ³	1,740	1,921	1,977	1,855	2,142	2,598	2,594	2,748	2,834	2,693	-5
	Under 21	459	547	548	544	515	562	518	569	594	672	13
	21-30	727	774	889	795	1,015	1,258	1,150	1,187	1,232	1,019	-17
	Over 30	553	597	539	516	612	777	926	992	1,008	1,002	-1
Financial penalty ²		103,728	92,548	85,414	71,846	77,483	79,994	86,138	85,032	82,293	84,835	3
Males	Total ³	89,723	81,179	75,019	62,034	67,583	68,395	73,014	71,640	69,896	72,334	3
	Under 21	17,819	16,168	14,841	12,755	14,129	14,108	14,498	13,891	14,127	14,727	4
	21-30	35,597	31,214	27,865	23,076	25,131	24,840	25,995	25,064	24,073	25,340	5
	Over 30	35,380	32,926	31,549	25,571	28,049	29,431	32,517	32,680	31,693	32,264	2
Females	Total ³	14,005	11,369	10,395	9,812	9,900	11,599	13,124	13,392	12,397	12,501	1
	Under 21	1,883	1,669	1,538	1,369	1,330	1,446	1,563	1,499	1,512	1,581	5
	21-30	5,562	4,469	3,867	3,639	3,694	4,040	4,597	4,638	4,274	4,256	0
	Over 30	6,236	4,983	4,742	4,582	4,815	6,110	6,963	7,255	6,611	6,662	1
Other sentence ²		16,072	15,010	13,852	12,842	13,472	14,158	14,859	15,786	16,146	18,157	12
Males	Total ³	12,147	11,345	10,450	9,527	10,171	10,611	11,025	11,728	12,011	13,488	12
	Under 21	4,183	4,093	3,535	2,957	3,202	3,366	3,254	3,342	3,492	3,799	9
	21-30	3,687	3,293	3,164	3,103	3,312	3,504	3,591	3,628	3,657	4,117	13
	Over 30	4,209	3,918	3,704	3,418	3,643	3,738	4,179	4,758	4,862	5,572	15
Females	Total ³	3,925	3,665	3,402	3,315	3,301	3,547	3,834	4,058	4,135	4,669	13
	Under 21	924	940	872	750	758	752	732	744	816	906	11
	21-30	1,434	1,403	1,253	1,267	1,288	1,373	1,538	1,541	1,556	1,760	13
	Over 30	1,477	1,265	1,265	1,277	1,245	1,422	1,563	1,773	1,763	2,003	14

1 Includes sentence unknown.
2 Excludes persons with sex unknown.
3 Includes persons with age unknown.

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