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3. Revisions to data
3.1 The figures given in this bulletin reflect the details of court proceedings as recorded on the Criminal History System and as provided to the Scottish Government up to the end of August 2008. Any subsequent updates on court disposals made will be incorporated into future bulletins and therefore some figures for 2007/08 (in particular those relating to the High Court) are likely to be subject to minor revisions.
3.2 There have been two main sets of changes to the numbers provided in this publication, compared with the 2006/07 bulletin (published in June 2008):
- Figures on persons proceeded against and persons with a charge proved, for 2007/08 and all previous years, have been altered to exclude those who have been proceeded against for a breach of a social work order, due to a change in recording practices for such crimes. As a result, all figures for "all offences" and "all crimes and offences" which appear in this bulletin are lower than the equivalent figures from previous versions of this bulletin.
- An improved methodology has been used to calculate total bail orders ( Tables 15 to 17) for each of the years 2002/03 to 2007/08. The new method produces figures which are similar to (but typically around 1 to 2 per cent lower than) the previously published figures.
3.3 More details of these changes are provided in Annex C at the back of this publication.
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