Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System: analysis of equality factors of accused disposed in court
This paper investigates how the median journey times (from offence to verdict) for accused persons prosecuted in Scottish courts vary by their sex, age, ethnicity and socio-economic status (as measured by the Social Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD))
Median offence to verdict times for accused prosecuted in Scottish criminal courts by sex are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Distribution of median offence to verdict times by sex. Median offence to verdict times, p value and significance are shown.
Note: Outliers have been removed from the chart to allow a clearer view of the central tendency and spread of the data. Number of case-accused considered in each group and the corresponding percentages of the total are shown in the tables in the Annex.
Females have a significantly longer median offence to verdict time than males (p = 2.960e-117). This is a very low p value indicating a highly significant difference in median times. The median offence to verdict time was 224 days for females and 208 days for males. The results of Mann-Whitney test are shown in Table 1 of the Annex.
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