Convictions under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) act 2009: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for information on convictions under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009. For each financial year since 2010/11, the number of convictions, broken down by the offender's sex, for the following offences:

Sexual exposure
Sexual exposure to a young child (under 13)
Sexual exposure to an older child (13-15)

Response

The table below provides the data you have requested. Please note data is only available from 2011-12 onwards for these offences.

Please also note that the category of sexual exposure may contain convictions of sexual exposure to a child i.e. the category does not solely include cases where the victim was aged 16+. Therefore convictions of sexual exposure to a child can be included in all three categories you listed in your request.
 

Total number of people convicted for sexual exposure, where main charge, by sex of offender, 2011-12 to 2019-20
		2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20
Total convicted		34	54	46	44	55	40	24	32	31
Male	Sexual exposure to a young child (under 13)	2	6	4	6	4	4	4	2	1
	Sexual exposure older child (13-15)	4	9	6	3	2	2	3	1	2
	Sexual exposure	28	39	36	35	49	33	17	29	28
Female	Sexual exposure	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings Statistics 2019-20

Key: The following symbols are used when presenting criminal proceedings data:

- Nil

* Less than 0.5%

n/a Not available

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