Criminal justice social work statistics: 2019 to 2020

National-level information, as well as some local authority breakdowns, on criminal justice social work activity in Scotland. Also includes data on justice social work services and social work orders, as well as characteristics of the individuals involved.


Table 10 Community payback orders commenced by age, gender, employment status and ethnicity: 2015-16 to 2019-20

2015-166 2016-176 2017-186 2018-196,7 2019-207
Number
Total 19,451 19,202 17,881 16,470 16,710
Age group1 16-17 615 615 532 438 343
18-20 2,271 2,061 1,839 1,596 1,552
21-25 3,816 3,751 3,161 2,860 2,792
26-30 3,499 3,419 3,114 3,000 3,003
31-40 5,066 5,143 5,078 4,736 5,107
Over 40 4,184 4,213 4,157 3,840 3,913
Gender Male 16,493 16,362 15,165 14,058 14,229
Female 2,958 2,840 2,716 2,412 2,481
Employment status Full-time education 315 353 277 264 278
Employed/self employed 4,358 4,325 4,247 4,076 4,123
Unemployed 11,503 11,100 10,245 9,264 9,671
Government training scheme 72 52 55 32 33
Economically inactive2 1,875 2,025 1,951 1,803 1,884
Other3,4 1,328 321 456 432 147
Not known5 1,026 650 599 574
Ethnicity White 17,682 17,301 16,029 14,513 15,002
Asian 202 220 218 250 243
African, Caribbean or Black 93 124 136 125 142
Mixed 49 64 52 52 48
Other 175 192 209 182 179
Not known/provided 1,250 1,301 1,237 1,348 1,096
Percentage
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Age group1 16-17 3.2 3.2 3.0 2.7 2.1
18-20 11.7 10.7 10.3 9.7 9.3
21-25 19.6 19.5 17.7 17.4 16.7
26-30 18.0 17.8 17.4 18.2 18.0
31-40 26.0 26.8 28.4 28.8 30.6
Over 40 21.5 21.9 23.2 23.3 23.4
Gender Male 84.8 85.2 84.8 85.4 85.2
Female 15.2 14.8 15.2 14.6 14.8
Employment status Full-time education 1.6 1.9 1.6 1.7 1.7
Employed/self employed 22.4 23.8 24.6 25.7 25.6
Unemployed 59.1 61.1 59.5 58.4 59.9
Government training scheme * * * * *
Economically inactive2 9.6 11.1 11.3 11.4 11.7
Other3 6.8 1.8 2.6 2.7 0.9
Ethnicity (where known) White 97.1 96.6 96.3 96.0 96.1
Asian 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.7 1.6
African, Caribbean or Black 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9
Mixed * * * * *
Other 1.0 1.1 1.3 1.2 1.1

Notes:

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. For 2015-16, includes some orders where employment status was not known.

4. An exercise was conducted for 2019-20 which asked councils to look further at orders where the employment status was originally being classified under "other". As a result, a number of orders were reclassified and the number of "others" was substantially lower than in previous years.

5. Orders where the employment status was unknown have been shown separately from 2016-17 onwards. Percentages for these years are calculated as a proportion of all orders where the employment status was known.

6. Figures for the years 2015-16 to 2018-19 have been revised from those previously published due to the receipt of updated information from some councils.

7. The figures for males for 2018-19 and 2019-20 include, respectively, 5 and 2 orders with gender "other".

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