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Costs, Sentencing Profiles and the Scottish Criminal Justice System 1997
 
Table 21
Sentencing by Lay Magistrates in District Courts, All Crimes and Offences, 1997

Local Council(1)

Percent custody

Percent probation

Percent fined

Percent admonished

Percent other

Persons with charge proved (=100%)

Average fine(1) (£)
 
Aberdeen City

1

2

85

11

1

3,330

75
Aberdeenshire

1

-

86

11

2

1,221

93
Angus

1

1

89

7

2

1,065

86
Argyll & Bute

*

-

86

11

3

624

60
Clackmannanshire

-

-

90

8

3

423

100
Dumfries & Galloway

1

*

94

4

1

2,540

87
Dundee City

3

1

76

15

5

2,768

83
East Ayrshire

1

*

79

18

1

1,351

64
East Dunbartonshire

5

1

65

28

1

340

80
East Lothian

-

-

87

11

2

711

80
East Renfrewshire

*

-

92

7

-

296

77
Edinburgh, City of

*

*

87

11

2

4,970

61
Eilean Siar(2)

1

-

92

7

*

283

69
Falkirk

1

*

89

9

1

1,659

67
Fife

1

*

91

7

2

2,703

81
Glasgow City

2

*

85

13

*

8,653

104
Highland

2

1

83

12

2

2,106

83
Inverclyde

2

*

77

20

1

1,274

60
Midlothian

-

*

90

9

1

888

67
Moray

*

*

93

6

1

1,518

101
North Ayrshire

*

1

89

9

*

1,465

81
North Lanarkshire

*

*

83

15

2

4,161

71
Perth & Kinross

1

3

82

9

5

1,826

96
Renfrewshire

1

*

79

19

*

1,179

78
Scottish Borders

*

1

91

7

1

1,552

106
South Ayrshire

1

1

89

9

1

1,748

76
South Lanarkshire

*

*

87

11

1

3,492

98
Stirling

*

*

90

9

1

829

66
West Dunbartonshire

1

3

76

18

2

938

76
West Lothian

*

1

95

3

1

1,347

117
Scotland

1

1

86

11

2

57,260

84
(1) Average of total fines imposed for all charges proved - see A.3 of Annex.
(2) Formerly known as the Western Isles.
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