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Costs, Sentencing Profiles and the Scottish Criminal Justice System 1997

Table 22

Sentencing by Lay Magistrates in District Courts, Theft, 1997

Local Council⁽¹⁾	Percent custody	Percent probation	Percent fined	Percent admonished	Percent other	Persons with charge proved (=100%)	Average fine⁽¹⁾ (Ł)

Aberdeen City	2	5	75	14	4	134	83
Aberdeenshire	1	-	74	16	8	73	72
Angus	-	3	69	14	14	29	66
Argyll & Bute	-	-	73	27	-	11	61
Clackmannanshire	-	-	88	-	12	17	86
Dumfries & Galloway	6	3	66	18	6	77	79
Dundee City	8	-	63	16	12	97	112
East Ayrshire	3	-	56	39	3	70	65
East Dunbartonshire	5	5	55	35	-	20	64
East Lothian	-	-	72	22	6	18	77
East Renfrewshire	-	-	50	50	-	2	50
Edinburgh, City of	1	-	78	18	4	161	73
Eilean Siar⁽²⁾	50	-	33	17	-	6	50
Falkirk	3	-	72	21	4	72	62
Fife	3	-	78	13	7	138	88
Glasgow City	5	1	72	21	*	201	118
Highland	2	2	76	17	2	82	69
Inverclyde	19	3	56	22	-	32	76
Midlothian	-	-	75	22	3	32	71
Moray	3	-	63	31	3	32	73
North Ayrshire	4	-	69	28	-	80	69
North Lanarkshire	2	-	72	21	5	165	82
Perth & Kinross	2	6	57	24	11	63	60
Renfrewshire	4	-	74	21	-	47	70
Scottish Borders	-	5	59	32	5	41	50
South Ayrshire	-	5	67	19	9	43	67
South Lanarkshire	3	4	62	28	4	76	90
Stirling	-	-	78	22	-	76	58
West Dunbartonshire	5	9	54	26	6	128	73
West Lothian	-	6	86	7	1	70	122
Scotland	3	2	70	21	4	2,093	82

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