Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System: analysis of equality factors of accused disposed in court

There are statistically significant differences in an accused person’s median journey times based on sex, age, ethnic group and SIMD. In general, journey times are longer for accused females than for accused males and, in general, longer for younger accused people than for people in other age bands. Journey times are shortest for accused in the Other White and Other White British ethnic group, and longest for those in the Asian group. Journey times are significantly shorter for those living in the 20% least deprived Scottish SIMD areas.

Whilst this analysis has identified differences in journey times based on equality variables it has not explored why these differences occur. These differences may be explained by factors such as the type of crime that a person is accused of. Further multivariate work is required to determine if the differences shown above can be explained by controlling for crime type and other factors.