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Criminal justice social work statistics: 2017-2018

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

	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
	Cases commenced					Caseload at 31 March
										Number
Total	1,048	1,033	1,027	1,042	1,042	3,318	3,376	3,375	3,330	3,404
Determinate long-term sentence (4 years and over)	482	442	443	443	460	1,566	1,510	1,474	1,469	1,543
Extended sentence	189	178	152	167	129	579	581	559	558	526
Life sentence	46	36	25	34	30	725	774	790	770	761
Order for lifelong restriction	12	10	9	5	11	91	98	108	121	130
Short-term sex offender¹	90	90	107	116	149	85	87	102	115	132
Supervised release order	229	277	291	277	263	272	326	342	297	312
										Percentage
Total	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*	*100.0*
Determinate long-term sentence (4 years and over)	46.0	42.8	43.1	42.5	44.1	47.2	44.7	43.7	44.1	45.3
Extended sentence	18.0	17.2	14.8	16.0	12.4	17.5	17.2	16.6	16.8	15.5
Life sentence	4.4	3.5	2.4	3.3	2.9	21.9	22.9	23.4	23.1	22.4
Order for lifelong restriction	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.5	1.1	2.7	2.9	3.2	3.6	3.8
Short-term sex offender¹	8.6	8.7	10.4	11.1	14.3	2.6	2.6	3.0	3.5	3.9
Supervised release order	21.9	26.8	28.3	26.6	25.2	8.2	9.7	10.1	8.9	9.2

1. Under Section 15 of the Management of Offenders Etc. (Scotland) Act 2005.

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