Recorded crime figures for Perverting The Course Of Justice: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/18/03281  
Date received: 7 November 2018 
Date responded: 4 December 2018

 

Information requested

 

Your criminal data shows “Perverting the Couse Of Justice” as being included with “Crimes Against Public Justice” but does not show the figures for “Perverting The Course Of Justice” separately. I would like to know please the separate recorded crime figures for “Perverting The Course Of Justice”, for each year from 1990 to 2018. i.e. the yearly figure for 1990, the yearly figure for 1991 etc. If possible could these results be shown in a table format for each year. Also if you could provide a web link(s) of where you got the information from.
 

Response

 

The information you have requested is provided in the two tables below. This is drawn from the recorded crime dataset. As you have noted, aggregate figures are presented in the annual Recorded Crime in Scotland National Statistics within the ‘Crimes against public justice’ category.

From 1995-96 onwards, recorded crime figures have been presented by financial year. Therefore, the information requested has been provided in two separate tables below.

Table 1 shows the number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland between 1990 and 1994.

Table 2 shows the number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland between 1995-96 and 2017-18.

In the final quarter of 1994-95 (i.e. January to March 1995) the police recorded 612 ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes.

Table 1: Number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 1990 to 1994 (calendar year)

 

Year	Number of crimes recorded
1990	1,822
1991	2,045
1992	2,279
1993	2,303
1994	2,460

Source: Scottish Government Recorded Crime

 

Table 2: Number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 1995-96 to 2017-18 (financial year)

 

Year	Number of crimes recorded
1995-96	2,364
1996-97	2,304
1997-98	2,322
1998-99	2,668
1999-00	4,622
2000-01	5,260
2001-02	6,318
2002-03	6,664
2003-04	6,591
2004-05	5,832
2005-06	5,767
2006-07	6,160
2007-08	5,369
2008-09	4,743
2009-10	3,966
2010-11	3,448
2011-12	3,589
2012-13	3,156
2013-14	2,947
2014-15	2,532
2015-16	2,587
2016-17	2,281
2017-18	2,202

Source: Scottish Government Recorded Crime

More information on recorded crime, including the most recent publication and accompanying data tables can be found here:

https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubRecordedCrime

 

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