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Friday, November 07, 2003
Report
International comparisons of criminal justice statistics 2001. Home Office October 2003.
This report contains selected criminal justice data covering the EU (including the UK jurisdictions), the accession countries and some others such as Russia, South Africa, Japan and the USA.
Statistics include recorded crime rates, prison population, police numbers and data on sentencing. For example, it shows that in 2001 Scotland’s imprisonment rate (at 120 per100,000) was the 3rd highest in the EU after England and Wales and Portugal. Since then the rate has risen to 126 in 2002. Across the Irish Sea rates were more typically European with Northern Ireland at 52 and Eire at 79.
Scotland’s average homicide rate from 1999 to 2001 was 2.16 (per 100,000) - the EU average is 1.59, and south of the border (1.61).
According to this report many more people were sentenced for assault in Scotland in 1999 than other EU countries for which data was given - 229 per 100,000, compared with 90 in Sweden, 88 in France and 65 in England and Wales. However, Scots courts were more likely to impose a fine (in 51% of these cases) compared with 26% in Sweden and France and only 13% in England and Wales.
Scotland (at 370) was second to Denmark (383) in the rate of sentencing for theft. The outcome in court differs markedly between countries. In Denmark 70% are fined; 37% in Scotland, 20% in England and Wales and only 9% in France. A person convicted for theft in Scotland is less likely to be made subject to a non-custodial sentence such as CSO or probation (32%) than in England and Wales (53%); is more likely to be imprisoned (31%, 24%) and more likely to go down for under 6 months (76%, 61%).
Posted by MM
on Fri 7th Nov 2003
at 3:21 am
Crime data
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