Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System: April 2022 to December 2022
This bulletin assesses an accused person’s criminal justice journey time from offence date to case conclusion or verdict for the period from April 2022 to December 2022. It analyses the average length of journey and how these journey times have been impacted by the COVID pandemic.
8. Conclusions
This bulletin represents the first in a series of experimental official statistics publications looking at accused journey times in the criminal justice system. The insights from this bulletin have allowed us to make observations about the average length of journey times in general, as well as how these journey times have changed from pre-pandemic levels and over the course of the pandemic and beyond.
Overall, the effect of the pandemic is very apparent in the data. Across all crime groupings and court types, median journey times of accused persons increased in 2021-22 (post pandemic) when compared to 2019-20 (pre-pandemic).
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