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Costs, Sentencing Profiles and the Scottish Criminal Justice System 1997

Table 24

Sentencing by Lay Magistrates in District Courts, Breach of the Peace, 1997

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

Aberdeen City	1	1	80	18	*	473	71
Aberdeenshire	-	-	81	19	*	210	67
Angus	1	1	86	10	1	139	71
Argyll & Bute	-	-	85	13	2	151	61
Clackmannanshire	-	-	85	14	1	121	96
Dumfries & Galloway	2	2	81	15	-	205	71
Dundee City	3	*	70	22	5	521	93
East Ayrshire	1	1	64	34	*	265	65
East Dunbartonshire	2	2	67	30	-	108	78
East Lothian	-	-	76	24	-	118	65
East Renfrewshire	-	-	86	14	-	69	70
Edinburgh, City of	1	-	76	20	2	617	77
Eilean Siar⁽²⁾	1	-	89	9	1	70	88
Falkirk	1	-	81	18	-	225	65
Fife	1	-	86	12	1	326	89
Glasgow City	3	*	75	22	*	2,305	114
Highland	3	1	79	16	1	537	80
Inverclyde	7	-	63	29	-	191	67
Midlothian	-	-	85	13	2	139	66
Moray	-	-	82	18	-	113	84
North Ayrshire	1	1	86	12	-	370	80
North Lanarkshire	1	*	76	22	1	1,073	71
Perth & Kinross	1	5	64	21	8	224	62
Renfrewshire	1	*	67	31	-	310	74
Scottish Borders	1	1	68	27	4	111	62
South Ayrshire	3	1	81	14	1	273	81
South Lanarkshire	1	*	75	23	*	709	80
Stirling	1	-	91	8	1	152	66
West Dunbartonshire	*	3	74	23	-	225	75
West Lothian	-	2	94	3	1	195	116
Scotland	2	1	77	20	1	10,545	85

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