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Publication - Statistics

Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the police in Scotland - 2012-13

Published
8 October 2013
ISBN
9781782568759

This bulletin presents statistics on domestic abuse, based on details of incidents supplied by the eight Scottish police forces in 2012-13

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Table 7 Incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police, by gender of victim/perpetrator, Scotland, 2003-04 to 2012-13

Number
  2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Female victim, male perpetrator 35,729 37,510 38,696 41,499 41,833 44,961 41,927 44,951 46,439 45,916
   % of total known 89 88 87 87 85 84 82 81 81 80
Male victim, female perpetrator 3,695 4,532 4,932 5,482 6,199 7,361 7,938 8,889 9,569 9,946
   % of total known 9 11 11 11 13 14 15 16 17 17
Female victim, female perpetrator 251 363 381 431 565 640 682 736 566 605
   % of total known 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Male victim, male perpetrator 328 380 400 455 530 548 666 693 659 677
   % of total known 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Not recorded1 1,232 848 922 941 822 421 713 429 2,614 2,936
TOTAL 41,235 43,633 45,331 48,808 49,949 53,931 51,926 55,698 59,847 60,080

1. In April 2011-12, Tayside made a change to the way domestic incidents are recorded which has resulted in an increase in the number of incidents with unknown details. See note 4.5

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