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

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


Table 9 Incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police where incidents against the same victim had previously been recorded, by financial year, Scotland, 2003-04 to 2012-13

              Number
  2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-111 2011-121 2012-13
No previous incidents 20,492 18,984 18,820 19,647 19,097 19,575 19,280 22,976 20,022 19,994
   % of total known 53 48 45 43 41 39 43 45 39 39
Previous incidents2 18,136 20,481 23,260 26,491 27,551 30,595 25,602 28,317 31,415 31,397
   % of total known 47 52 55 57 59 61 57 55 61 61
Not recorded2 2,607 4,168 3,251 2,670 3,301 3,761 7,044 4,405 8,410 8,689
TOTAL 41,235 43,633 45,331 48,808 49,949 53,931 51,926 55,698 59,847 60,080

1. An issue with the processing of repeat codes in data was identified resulting in a revision in repeat information for 2010-11 and 2011-12. See note 4.4.

2. Issues with previous years coding was discovered while updating the system used to process domestic abuse incidents data resulting in a revision to data for 2007-08 and 2008-09. See note 4.4

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