Criminal justice social work statistics: 2017-2018

2017-2018 statistics on various areas of criminal justice social work in Scotland.


Table 6: Bail information, court services and home detention curfew assessments: 2013-14 to 2017-18

2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
Bail information
Requests from court for bail information 6,874 8,006 7,278 6,955 5,919
Bail supervision cases
Number commenced1 417 407 355 310 268
Individuals1 400 390 318 292 253
Court services
Same day reports 3,679 3,534 3,705 4,258 4,214
Written reports 1,047 961 1,446 1,926 2,205
Oral reports 2,632 2,573 2,259 2,332 2,009
Information at court's request2 1,322 1,280 1,603 2,095 1,881
Post sentence interviews 20,167 18,914 20,072 19,253 18,208
Home detention curfew assessments
Reports 2,939 2,782 2,676 2,513 2,738
Individuals 2,649 2,532 2,439 2,236 2,470

1. Figures for bail supervision for 2016-17 have been amended from those originally published last year due to the receipt of updated information for South Lanarkshire.

2. The figure for 2017-18 for information at court's request includes estimated figures for Aberdeen City.

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