Publication - Statistics

Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2020-2021

Published: 28 September 2021
Directorate: Justice Directorate, +1 more … Safer Communities Directorate
Topic: Law and order
ISBN: 9781802014150

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.

Supporting documents

Table A10: Estimated additional crimes recorded following procedural change to recording of international crimes, 2020-21

Table Note: 22

Crime type	Estimated number of crimes	Perpetrator likely to be outwith UK (percentage)²³
Total	1,160	<1%
Other sexual crimes	140	2%
Fraud	900	6%
Threats and extortion	110	12%
Computer Misuse Act 1990	*	4%
Sample size²⁴	802

* Estimated to be fewer than 5 crimes.

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Table A10: Estimated additional crimes recorded following procedural change to recording of international crimes, 2020-21

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