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Publication - Statistics

Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2013-14

Published
30 March 2015
ISBN
9781785442582

An annual publication of statistics on community payback and other social work orders, including breaches and terminations of orders, as well as criminal justice social work (CJSW) reports and other areas of CJSW.

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Table 1 Summary of criminal justice social work activity: 2007-08 to 2013-14

  2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Diversion from prosecution
Cases commenced 956 962 1,053 958 1,260 1,664 2,250
Individuals 939 929 933 939 1,231 1,512 2,061
Cases successfully completed 818 779 763 800 898 1,217 1,462
Bail supervision
Cases commenced 729 583 481 450 497 411 417
Individuals 657 496 436 430 467 397 400
Criminal justice social work reports1
Total reports submitted (including supplementaries) 41,986 42,472 40,762 37,504 36,367 32,558 31,406
Individuals with reports submitted 28,947 29,247 28,888 27,371 26,922 24,785 23,740
Supplementary reports submitted 6,100 6,159 6,031 5,493 4,488 4,536 3,632
Social work orders
Commencements 19,947 20,674 19,865 18,044 19,746 19,656 20,363
Community payback orders2,3       .. 10,228 16,057 18,599
Community service orders 6,202 6,437 6,429 5,940 3,044 693 227
Probation orders 8,706 9,179 8,838 8,136 3,040 514 138
With an element of unpaid work 3,053 3,324 3,236 3,031 1,276 216 71
Supervised attendance orders 4,438 4,306 3,859 3,307 2,877 1,752 779
Drug treatment and testing orders3 601 752 739 661 557 640 620
Individuals 18,169 18,786 18,127 16,554 18,044 17,177 17,623
Community payback orders3       .. 9,376 13,983 16,028
Community service orders 5,874 6,124 6,053 5,665 2,933 656 219
Probation orders 7,984 8,422 8,182 7,520 2,833 490 130
With an element of unpaid work 2,887 3,135 3,074 2,875 1,228 213 66
Supervised attendance orders 3,768 3,582 3,219 2,764 2,380 1,472 654
Drug treatment and testing orders3 543 658 673 605 522 576 592
Orders in force at 31 March4
Community payback orders3       .. .. 13,738 17,010
Drug treatment and testing orders3       .. .. 747 706
Terminations 16,135 18,889 18,290 17,869 17,213 18,505 19,197
Community payback orders3       .. 2,616 10,409 15,327
Community service orders 5,825 6,883 6,737 6,082 4,706 2,037 759
Probation orders5 6,849 7,488 7,551 7,883 6,619 3,339 996
Supervised attendance orders 2,970 3,976 3,414 3,246 2,639 2,128 1,454
Drug treatment and testing orders3 491 542 588 658 633 592 661
Proportion of completions/discharges 59.7 59.5 62.5 64.2 68.6 68.8 70.6
Community payback orders3,6       .. 68.8 68.5 72.2
Community service orders 64.6 63.6 69.6 74.0 74.4 71.1 69.2
Probation orders5 58.4 56.6 57.0 59.8 67.1 74.8 78.6
Supervised attendance orders 56.7 60.6 63.9 60.1 65.1 62.9 58.3
Drug treatment and testing orders3 37.3 39.7 44.7 46.0 53.6 52.4 52.2
Statutory throughcare
Cases commenced (custody) 1,247 1,110 1,019 1,028 1,072 965 1,048
Cases commenced (community) 1,056 1,238 1,062 1,046 1,047 1,001 1,027
Cases completed (community) 879 1,062 845 881 944 927 1,019
Cases in force at 31 March (custody/community) 5,292 5,388 5,546 5,392 5,576 5,778 6,003
Voluntary throughcare (assistance)
Cases commenced 2,681 2,883 2,683 2,725 2,625 2,597 2,489
Individuals who received assistance 2,253 2,545 2,433 2,350 2,428 2,464 2,327
Throughcare addiction services cases commenced 1,424 1,453 1,523 1,515 1,486 1,320 1,180
Pre-release reports
Total 2,701 2,854 3,251 3,616 3,425 2,982 3,184
Home leave reports 1,315 1,230 1,569 2,055 1,923 1,500 1,597
Home circumstance reports (parole/non-parole) 1,386 1,624 1,682 1,561 1,502 1,482 1,587

1. Social enquiry reports prior to February 2011.

2. Information on orders commenced was collected from local authorities from 2011-12 onward. Figures from the Scottish Court Service suggest around 300 community payback orders were imposed in 2010-11. Figures are available at http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/CPOs.

3. 2012-13 figures for community payback orders and drug treatment & testing orders revised since original publication due to updated information being received from some local authorities.

4. Data based on unit-level returns from 2012-13 onward.

5. 2012-13 figures for probation orders terminated slightly revised since original publication due to updated figures being supplied for Moray.

6. As a result of the revision of the 2012-13 figures for community payback orders, the reason for termination is not known for a small number of orders. The figure for the proportion of completions/discharges has therefore been calculated as a proportion of the orders where this reason was known.

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