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Statistical Bulletin CrJ/1998/6
Recorded Crimes and Offences involving Firearms, Scotland, 1997
ISBN 0 7480 7732 4 Publisher The Scottish Office Price £2.00
CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Summary
3. Crimes and offences recorded in which a firearm was alleged to have been used
4. Crimes and offences cleared up in which a firearm was alleged to have been used
5. Analysis by police force area
6. Crimes and offences in which a firearm was stolen
7. Appendix of tables

All the tables relate to crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used

Table 1 : All firearms, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 1A : Firearms excluding airweapons, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 2 : Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used as a percentage of all crimes and offences recorded for selected crimes, Scotland, 1988-1997

Table 3 and Table 4 : All firearms by main firearm used, Scotland, 1988-1997 and Scotland, 1997
Table 5 : All firearms by how used, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 5A : Firearms excluding airweapons by how used, Scotland, 1988-1997

Table 6 : All firearms by how used and main firearm used, Scotland, 1997
Table 7 : All firearms by how used, Scotland, 1997
Table 7A : Firearms excluding airweapons by how used, Scotland, 1997
Table 8 : All firearms by location of use, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 8A : Firearms excluding airweapons by location of use, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 9 : All firearms fired causing injury by main firearm used, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 10 : All firearms fired causing injury by age and sex of main victim, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 10A : Firearms excluding airweapons fired causing injury by age and sex of main victim, Scotland,1988- 1997
Table 11 : Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used by percentage of crimes cleared up, Scotland, 1988-1997

Table 12 : Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used by age of main accused in crimes cleared up, Scotland, 1988-1997
Table 12A : Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used by age of main accused and main firearm used in crimes cleared up, Scotland, 1997
Table 13 : All firearms by police force area, Scotland, 1997
Table 13A : Firearms excluding airweapons by police force area, Scotland, 1997
Table 14 : Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was stolen by main firearm stolen, Scotland,1988 - 1997

8. Annex : Notes on statistics used in this bulletin
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