Crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 1991 - 2000

Table 1

Number & Percentage

Crime group

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

% change 99-00

Total crimes

572,921

564,890

517,247

500,110

475,697

451,956

420,642

431,551

435,703

423,172

-3

Non-sexual crimes of violence

21,733

23,300

19,404

19,774

21,119

21,537

19,164

21,085

23,440

23,349

*

Serious assault etc ¹

6,972

7,709

6,527

6,705

6,920

6,988

6,053

6,616

7,200

6,963

-3

Handling an offensive weapon

6,171

6,536

5,152

5,282

6,465

6,822

5,989

6,744

7,901

8,153

3

Robbery

6,213

6,807

5,582

5,297

5,330

5,254

4,484

4,951

5,075

4,420

-13

Other

2,377

2,248

2,143

2,490

2,404

2,473

2,638

2,774

3,264

3,813

17

Crimes of indecency

5,844

6,150

6,047

5,998

5,547

5,676

7,147

7,411

5,982

5,754

-4

Sexual assault

1,429

1,604

1,626

1,603

1,638

1,729

1,979

2,154

1,933

1,822

-6

Lewd and indecent behaviour

2,618

2,596

2,721

2,655

2,381

2,465

3,014

2,952

2,383

2,346

-2

Other

1,797

1,950

1,700

1,740

1,528

1,482

2,154

2,305

1,666

1,586

-5

Crimes of dishonesty

430,153

414,992

374,937

350,346

321,201

295,441

267,207

275,418

276,189

260,936

-6

Housebreaking

116,130

113,160

97,829

88,394

74,235

64,470

55,471

56,636

53,826

48,712

-10

Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP)

102,801

11,008

10,866

9,024

8,192

8,055

9,725

12,226

11,691

11,305

-3

Theft from a motor vehicle by (OLP) ²

65,838

58,347

52,417

41,406

39,617

38,533

33,734

-12

Theft of a motor vehicle

44,280

47,433

42,816

41,962

37,514

34,161

28,646

28,433

29,818

26,238

-12

Shoplifting

30,098

29,736

26,746

26,573

27,952

26,927

26,322

29,590

32,008

32,343

1

Other theft

104,583

98,794

93,327

88,900

87,716

82,576

79,612

80,051

81,109

78,060

-4

Fraud

21,981

22,564

19,125

17,670

17,093

16,081

15,734

18,634

18,608

21,188

14

Other

10,280

11,079

10,299

11,985

10,152

10,754

10,291

10,231

10,596

9,356

-12

Fire-raising, vandalism etc

89,726

92,237

84,194

88,543

86,546

89,025

81,000

79,154

79,568

83,192

5

Fire-raising

4,837

4,666

4,118

3,589

3,299

3,306

2,786

2,509

2,325

2,364

2

Vandalism etc

84,889

87,571

80,076

84,954

83,247

85,719

78,214

76,645

77,243

80,828

5

Other crimes

25,465

28,211

32,665

35,449

41,284

40,277

46,124

48,483

50,524

49,941

-1

Crimes against public justice

13,291

14,411

14,515

16,004

16,359

16,148

16,641

16,919

18,528

18,430

-1

Drugs

11,981

13,568

17,986

19,281

24,773

23,992

29,386

31,460

31,870

31,431

-1

Other

193

232

164

164

152

137

97

104

126

80

-37