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| Recorded Crime in Scotland,1998: Cr/1999/3 |
| Crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 1989 - 1998 | Table 1 |
Number & Percentage |
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| Crime group | 1989 |
1990 |
1991 |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
% change |
| Total crimes | 478,208 |
518,523 |
572,921 |
564,890 |
517,247 |
500,110 |
475,697 |
451,956 |
420,642 |
431,551 |
3 |
| Non-sexual crimes of violence | 18,374 |
18,234 |
21,733 |
23,300 |
19,404 |
19,774 |
21,119 |
21,537 |
19,164 |
21,085 |
10 |
| Serious assault etc 1 | 7,323 |
6,287 |
6,972 |
7,709 |
6,527 |
6,705 |
6,920 |
6,988 |
6,053 |
6,616 |
9 |
| Handling an offensive weapon | 4,768 |
5,135 |
6,171 |
6,536 |
5,152 |
5,282 |
6,465 |
6,822 |
5,989 |
6,744 |
13 |
| Robbery | 4,407 |
4,651 |
6,213 |
6,807 |
5,582 |
5,297 |
5,330 |
5,254 |
4,484 |
4,951 |
10 |
| Other | 1,876 |
2,161 |
2,377 |
2,248 |
2,143 |
2,490 |
2,404 |
2,473 |
2,638 |
2,774 |
5 |
| Crimes of indecency | 5,742 |
6,034 |
5,844 |
6,150 |
6,047 |
5,998 |
5,547 |
5,676 |
7,147 |
7,411 |
4 |
| Sexual assault | 1,508 |
1,458 |
1,429 |
1,604 |
1,626 |
1,603 |
1,638 |
1,729 |
1,979 |
2,154 |
9 |
| Lewd and indecent behaviour | 2,584 |
2,624 |
2,618 |
2,596 |
2,721 |
2,655 |
2,381 |
2,465 |
3,014 |
2,952 |
-2 |
| Other | 1,650 |
1,952 |
1,797 |
1,950 |
1,700 |
1,740 |
1,528 |
1,482 |
2,154 |
2,305 |
7 |
| Crimes of dishonesty | 355,525 |
385,152 |
430,153 |
414,992 |
374,937 |
350,346 |
321,201 |
295,441 |
267,207 |
275,418 |
3 |
| Housebreaking | 93,727 |
101,721 |
116,130 |
113,160 |
97,829 |
88,394 |
74,235 |
64,470 |
55,471 |
56,636 |
2 |
| Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) | 84,748 |
92,351 |
102,801 |
11,008 |
10,866 |
9,024 |
8,192 |
8,055 |
9,725 |
12,226 |
26 |
| Theft from a motor vehicle by (OLP) 2 | - |
- |
- |
81,218 |
73,929 |
65,838 |
58,347 |
52,417 |
41,406 |
39,617 |
-4 |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 29,064 |
36,103 |
44,280 |
47,433 |
42,816 |
41,962 |
37,514 |
34,161 |
28,646 |
28,433 |
-1 |
| Shoplifting | 26,319 |
26,798 |
30,098 |
29,736 |
26,746 |
26,573 |
27,952 |
26,927 |
26,322 |
29,590 |
12 |
| Other theft | 92,657 |
97,825 |
104,583 |
98,794 |
93,327 |
88,900 |
87,716 |
82,576 |
79,612 |
80,051 |
1 |
| Fraud | 19,347 |
19,554 |
21,981 |
22,564 |
19,125 |
17,670 |
17,093 |
16,081 |
15,734 |
18,634 |
18 |
| Other | 9,663 |
10,800 |
10,280 |
11,079 |
10,299 |
11,985 |
10,152 |
10,754 |
10,291 |
10,231 |
-1 |
| Fire-raising, vandalism etc | 79,062 |
86,457 |
89,726 |
92,237 |
84,194 |
88,543 |
86,546 |
89,025 |
81,000 |
79,154 |
-2 |
| Fire-raising | 4,370 |
4,324 |
4,837 |
4,666 |
4,118 |
3,589 |
3,299 |
3,306 |
2,786 |
2,509 |
-10 |
| Vandalism etc | 74,692 |
82,133 |
84,889 |
87,571 |
80,076 |
84,954 |
83,247 |
85,719 |
78,214 |
76,645 |
-2 |
| Other crimes | 19,505 |
22,646 |
25,465 |
28,211 |
32,665 |
35,449 |
41,284 |
40,277 |
46,124 |
48,483 |
5 |
| Crimes against public justice | 12,298 |
12,918 |
13,291 |
14,411 |
14,515 |
16,004 |
16,359 |
16,148 |
16,641 |
16,919 |
2 |
| Drugs | 7,024 |
9,564 |
11,981 |
13,568 |
17,986 |
19,281 |
24,773 |
23,992 |
29,386 |
31,460 |
7 |
| Other | 183 |
164 |
193 |
232 |
164 |
164 |
152 |
137 |
97 |
104 |
7 |
| 1. See Annex Note 11.5 |
| 2. Separately identified from 1 January 1992 |
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