Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2015-2016

National-level information on criminal justice social work activity in Scotland, including data on criminal justice social work services and social work orders.


Table 10 Community payback orders issued by court type: 2012-13 to 2015-16

2012-13 2 2013-14 2 2014-15 2,3 2015-16
Number
Total 16,063 18,689 19,064 19,410
High/appeal 76 78 67 82
Sheriff solemn 1,3 819 861 1,071 1,052
Sheriff summary 1,3 14,078 16,440 16,601 17,190
Stipendiary magistrates 374 531 518 265
Justice of the peace 377 571 630 715
Outwith Scotland 75 72 120 106
Not known 264 136 57 -
  Percentage
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
High/appeal 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4
Sheriff solemn 1,3 5.2 4.6 5.6 5.4
Sheriff summary 1,3 89.1 88.6 87.3 88.6
Stipendiary magistrates 2.4 2.9 2.7 1.4
Justice of the peace 2.4 3.1 3.3 3.7
Outwith Scotland 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.5

Notes:

1. Figures for sheriff solemn and sheriff summary include estimates as some local authorities were not able to distinguish between solemn and summary.

2. Revisions were made to the 2012-13 to 2014-15 data and, as a consequence, the court type for some orders was unknown. The percentages are therefore calculated on the total orders where the court type was known.

3. A further revision has been made to the 2014-15 figures due to the categories "sheriff solemn" and "sheriff summary" for Stirling being wrongly allocated to each other.

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