Hearings in Scottish courts - ethnicity of individuals: analysis

This occasional paper presents new experimental analysis based on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service’s management information, on the ethnicity of individuals who were proceeded against and sentenced from April 2016 to February 2023.


Footnotes

1. Estimates from the 2019 Scottish Surveys Core Questions (SSCQ) [1] dataset, indicate an increase in the proportion of the population identifying as Asian, African, Caribbean or Black, Mixed, or Other ethnic group (4.7%), and White Minority Ethnic (6.7%), and a decrease in the proportion identifying as White Scottish/White Other British (88.4%).

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