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Domestic abuse: statistics recorded by the police in Scotland - 2013/14 and 2014/15

This Official Statistics publication presents statistics on incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police in Scotland in 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Table 5: Incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police, by gender of victim and financial year, Scotland, 2005-06 to 2014-15

Number
		2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14 1,2	2014-15 2
Incidents leading to the Recording of a Crime/offence	Female	20,673	21,044	22,023	25,389	26,677	26,766	26,871	24,993	25,348	25,080
	Male	2,654	2,605	2,944	4,051	5,224	5,470	5,431	5,190	5,235	5,361
	Not recorded or other 5	179	183	160	86	165	134	67	76	1,186	2,128
Incidents not leading to recording a crime or offence	Female	18,765	21,398	20,728	20,442	16,325	19,116	20,254	21,635	18,079	16,484
	Male	2,740	3,402	3,850	3,885	3,449	4,156	4,814	5,468	5,104	4,937
	Not recorded or other 5	320	252	244	78	86	56	2,410	2,718	3,487	5,892
Total	Female	39,438	42,442	42,751	45,831	43,002	45,882	47,125	46,628	43,427	41,564
	Male	5,394	6,007	6,794	7,936	8,673	9,626	10,245	10,658	10,339	10,298
	Not recorded or other 5	499	435	404	164	251	190	2,477	2,794	4,673	8,020
	TOTAL 3	45,331	48,884	49,949	53,931	51,926	55,698	59,847	60,080	58,439	59,882

Please see Notes for Tables at end of Chapter 5.

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