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Costs, Sentencing Profiles and the Scottish Criminal Justice System 1997

Table 12

Sentencing in Sheriff Summary Courts, Breach of the Peace, 1997

Sheriff Court	Percent custody	Percent community service	Percent probation	Percent fined	Percent other	Persons with charge proved (=100%)	Average fine⁽¹⁾ (Ł)	Average length of custody⁽²⁾ (days)

Aberdeen	14	1	6	61	17	314	159	83
Airdrie	7	4	10	57	22	298	178	70
Alloa	12	-	10	60	18	68	181	43
Arbroath	14	1	13	61	11	92	159	56
Ayr	12	4	5	63	16	438	156	61
Banff	15	7	-	63	15	27	235	83
Campbeltown	6	2	10	73	10	51	228	50
Cupar	11	5	14	64	7	44	205	39
Dingwall	32	-	11	36	21	28	123	49
Dornoch	-	-	-	60	40	5	317	-
Dumbarton	10	4	4	63	20	200	169	72
Dumfries	14	2	8	57	18	132	156	91
Dundee	13	3	8	51	25	304	169	77
Dunfermline	4	1	8	62	26	282	152	67
Dunoon	22	7	9	52	11	46	218	73
Duns	16	16	5	53	11	19	210	81
Edinburgh	12	3	7	64	13	834	156	61
Elgin	13	3	3	59	24	119	196	69
Falkirk	13	3	6	56	23	228	155	53
Forfar	11	-	11	53	25	36	180	83
Fort William	21	3	3	53	21	38	245	56
Glasgow	12	4	7	57	19	557	180	71
Greenock	28	1	6	38	27	196	205	75
Haddington	6	4	17	25	48	71	223	60
Hamilton	7	4	6	65	18	380	199	75
Inverness	23	3	4	61	10	226	162	48
Jedburgh	12	5	7	41	34	41	235	66
Kilmarnock	15	3	4	72	7	477	241	73
Kirkcaldy	11	1	8	54	26	195	177	58
Kirkcudbright	14	-	6	69	11	36	169	85
Kirkwall	16	-	13	55	16	31	92	42
Lanark	9	6	3	64	19	151	223	70
Lerwick	26	3	15	44	12	34	93	50
Linlithgow	6	4	6	60	24	170	152	77
Lochmaddy	-	-	-	92	8	12	198	-
Oban	5	3	-	68	24	38	224	73
Paisley	11	5	5	62	17	320	245	70
Peebles	-	10	5	71	14	21	190	-
Perth	14	2	12	60	11	149	151	60
Peterhead	5	4	8	65	17	95	209	30
Portree	-	-	10	70	20	10	297	-
Rothesay	-	-	-	93	7	15	191	-
Selkirk	19	5	5	43	29	21	192	91
Stirling	14	1	5	65	15	147	165	66
Stonehaven	5	3	3	72	17	60	146	50
Stornoway	26	5	2	48	19	42	324	99
Stranraer	9	5	4	59	22	74	243	85
Tain	5	18	3	68	5	38	173	30
Wick	8	9	6	64	13	53	257	32
Scotland	12	3	7	60	18	7,263	183	67

(1) Average of total fines imposed for all charges proved - see A.3 of Annex.
(2) Average of total sentence length imposed for all charges proved.