Crime and justice: statistics

Introduction

Within the Justice Analytical Services Division, statisticians work within two policy-focused, multi-disciplinary analytical teams which include social researchers, economists and performance analysts. The teams provide statistical information and support relating to police and community safety, court affairs and offenders, prisons and matters relating to civil and international law.

Statistics collections

• Civil Justice Statistics in Scotland
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Justice Analytical Services data report
• Criminal justice monitoring data
• Justice (formerly Criminal Justice) Social Work Statistics
• Criminal Proceedings in Scotland
• Domestic Abuse Statistics
• Drug Seizures Statistics
• Firearm Offence Statistics
• Homicide Statistics
• Police Strength Statistics
• Prison Statistics
• Reconviction of Offenders Statistics
• Recorded Crime Statistics
• Scottish Crime and Justice Survey
• Scottish Victimisation Telephone Survey

• Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System

Criminal court disposals dashboard

We have launched an interactive dashboard providing information on disposals issued at charge level in Scottish criminal courts. The dashboard allows users to investigate trends in court disposals (at charge level) from April 2017, over a wide range of options. It will be updated quarterterly. 

• justice analytical services criminal disposals dashboard 

High-level summaries of statistics trends

• Crime and justice statistics: high-level summary of statistics trends 2019

Monitoring Framework for the Violence Prevention Framework

• Violence Prevention Framework for Scotland: Monitoring Framework, 2025

  Monitoring framework to support the delivery of the Violence Prevention Framework for Scotland.

  Publication date

  16 December 2025

  Type

  Statistics

Occasional publications

• Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System: analysis of equality factors of accused disposed in court
• Short custodial disposals from court and the prison population
• Conviction rate data for cases of rape and attempted rape
• Women in the justice system: evidence review
• Costs of the criminal justice system in Scotland dataset: 2016-17 (published December 2019)
• Non-sexual violence in Scotland: report
• Domestic abuse analytical paper
• Assaults on police officers and emergency workers: 1999-00 to 2008-09
• Crime and macroeconomic performance in Scotland
• Assessing the scale and impact of illicit drug markets in Scotland
• Hearings in Scottish courts - ethnicity of individuals: analysis

About crime and justice statistics

• Crime and justice statistics: justice analytical programme 2019-20

  The 2019-20 programme of the justice analytical services team, who are responsible for crime and justice statistics in the Scottish Government.

  Publication date

  02 July 2019

  Type

  Strategy/plan

• About crime and justice statistics: a resource for students