Criminal justice social work statistics: 2017-2018

2017-2018 statistics on various areas of criminal justice social work in Scotland.

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Table 11: Community payback orders issued by court type: 2013-14 to 2017-18

2013-142 2014-152 2015-162 2016-172 2017-18
Number
Total 18,688 19,065 19,451 19,196 17,834
High/appeal 78 67 82 96 59
Sheriff solemn1 862 1,071 1,054 1,038 757
Sheriff summary1 16,441 16,604 17,227 17,054 16,207
Stipendiary magistrates 531 518 265 53 32
Justice of the peace 572 630 718 870 680
Outwith Scotland 72 120 105 85 99
Not known 132 55 - -
Percentage
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
High/appeal 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.3
Sheriff solemn1 4.6 5.6 5.4 5.4 4.2
Sheriff summary1 88.6 87.3 88.6 88.8 90.9
Stipendiary magistrates 2.9 2.7 1.4 0.3 0.2
Justice of the peace 3.1 3.3 3.7 4.5 3.8
Outwith Scotland 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.6

Notes:

1. Figures for sheriff solemn and sheriff summary include estimates as some local authorities were not able to distinguish between solemn and summary for all orders.

2. Revisions have been made to the data for 2013-14 to 2016-17. A consequence of this, for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15, was that the court type for some orders was unknown for those years. The percentages are therefore calculated on the total orders where the court type was known.

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