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Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2020-2021
Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority. This bulletin also includes a new chapter which presents an estimate of how many cyber-crimes were recorded in Scotland during 2019-20 and 2020-21.
Table 4: Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 population, 2011-12 to 2020-212
Table Note: 11 and 2
| Crime / Offence group | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-1816 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total crimes | 593 | 514 | 508 | 479 | 458 | 442 | 451 | 453 | 451 | 451 |
| Non-sexual crimes of violence | 18 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 16 |
| Homicide etc.3 (incl. causing death by driving) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Attempted murder & serious assault4 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Robbery | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Other violence | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Sexual crimes5 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 24 |
| Rape & attempted rape | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Sexual assault | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| Crimes associated with prostitution | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other sexual crimes | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| Crimes of dishonesty | 291 | 256 | 258 | 237 | 216 | 209 | 211 | 211 | 204 | 164 |
| Housebreaking6 | 46 | 40 | 42 | 39 | 33 | 30 | 28 | 25 | 24 | 18 |
| Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP | 17 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| Shoplifting | 56 | 50 | 52 | 51 | 53 | 53 | 58 | 62 | 56 | 38 |
| Other theft | 126 | 110 | 110 | 100 | 86 | 84 | 82 | 79 | 76 | 59 |
| Fraud | 17 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 27 |
| Other dishonesty | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
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