Hearings in Scottish courts - ethnicity of individuals: analysis

This occasional paper presents new experimental analysis based on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service’s management information, on the ethnicity of individuals who were proceeded against and sentenced from April 2016 to February 2023.

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The datasets used in this analysis were provided to Scottish Government JAS Division from SCTS systems. They were specifically designed to assist JAS with the analysis of remand and bail and to analyse the impact of presumption against short sentences. Therefore, the datasets were not designed for the type of analysis undertaken in this study and the results must be treated with caution.

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