Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System
Collection of bulletins assessing an accused person’s criminal justice journey time from offence date to case conclusion or verdict.
Introduction
These bulletins present average criminal justice system journey lengths and how those are changing over time.
We have launched an interactive dashboard that provides quarterly updates on the length of accused persons journey times in the criminal justice system. The dashboard allows users to investigate trends from April 2017 by financial year or financial year quarter. It will be updated quarterly. The Interactive dashboard is available at the link below:
Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System interactive dashboard
Version 3.0 of the dashboard was published on 28/03/25 and includes data up to 30th December 2024. This latest version of the dashboard incorporates the new breakdowns by sex, gender, age band and SIMD zones presented in 4 new pages under the section Journey times for accused prosecuted in criminal courts.
Bulletins
Occasional publications
Occasional papers presenting new analysis based on information from the Criminal Journey Times in the Scottish Justice System publication.