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Publication - Statistics

Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2015-2016

Published
21 February 2017
Directorate
Justice Directorate
Topic
Law and order
ISBN
9781786528087

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

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Table 24 Drug treatment and testing orders commenced by age, gender, employment status, ethnicity and length: 2011-12 to 2015-16

  2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 3 2014-15 4 2015-16
Number
Total 557 639 625 551 522
Age group 1
16-17 1 5 1 1 1
18-20 10 9 13 16 9
21-25 67 69 73 60 51
26-30 152 174 144 117 121
31-40 258 289 286 262 243
Over 40 69 93 108 95 97
Gender
Male 455 512 498 437 412
Female 102 127 127 114 110
Employment status
Full-time education 3 2 2 1 6
Employed/self employed 22 14 18 10 18
Unemployed 436 484 347 295 312
Government training scheme - 2 - 1 1
Economically inactive 2 76 104 167 151 142
Other 20 28 63 91 42
Not known   5 28 2 1
Ethnicity
White 520 613 595 534 492
Asian 2 1 2 1 3
African, Caribbean or Black 2 4 5 - -
Mixed 2 5 2 2 4
Other 10 4 6 - 4
Not known/not provided 21 12 15 14 19
Average length (months) 17.6 18.1 17.4 17.7 17.8
  Percentage
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Age group 1
16-17 * 0.8 * * *
18-20 1.8 1.4 2.1 2.9 1.7
21-25 12.0 10.8 11.7 10.9 9.8
26-30 27.3 27.2 23.0 21.2 23.2
31-40 46.3 45.2 45.8 47.5 46.6
Over 40 12.4 14.6 17.3 17.2 18.6
Gender
Male 81.7 80.1 79.7 79.3 78.9
Female 18.3 19.9 20.3 20.7 21.1
Employment status (where known)
Full-time education 0.5 * * * 1.2
Employed/self employed 3.9 2.2 3.0 1.8 3.5
Unemployed 78.3 76.3 58.1 53.7 59.9
Government training scheme - * - * *
Economically inactive 2 13.6 16.4 28.0 27.5 27.3
Other 3.6 4.4 10.6 16.6 8.1
Ethnicity (where known)
White 97.0 97.8 97.5 99.4 97.8
Asian * * * * 0.6
African, Caribbean or Black * 0.6 0.8 - -
Mixed * 0.8 * * 0.8
Other 1.9 0.6 1.0 - 0.8

Note: Figures include DTTO IIs, which have been piloted in the City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian areas since June 2008.

1. Age is at commencement of order. Figures may include a small number of under 16s.

2. Includes those who are retired, supported by family, caring for home/family or long-term sick/disabled.

3. In 2013-14, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and Aberdeenshire separately identified a small number of records where the employment status was unknown. The percentages by employment status for that year are therefore calculated as a proportion of orders where this was known. Changes were also made in City of Edinburgh and Midlothian as to how the reason for being unemployed was recorded. This has led to some orders which would previously have been recorded as unemployed being recorded as economically inactive.

4. Figures for 2014-15 have been revised from those previously published due to the receipt of updated information from some councils.

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