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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