Racist incidents recorded by the police in Scotland
Source: data.gov.uk (2014-05-10)

Characteristics of victims and perpetrators of racist incidents reported to the police at police force and Scotland level.

Source agency: Scottish Government

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Racist incidents recorded by the police in Scotland

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Introduction

Within the Justice Analytical Services Division, statisticians work within two policy-focused, multi-disciplinary analytical teams which include social researchers, economists and performance analysts. The teams provide statistical information and support relating to police and community safety, court affairs and offenders, prisons and matters relating to civil and international law.

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- Civil Justice Statistics in Scotland (/collections/civil-justice-statistics/)
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Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System (/collections/journey-times-in-the-scottish-criminal-justice-system/)

Criminal court disposals dashboard

We have launched an interactive dashboard providing information on disposals issued at charge level in Scottish criminal courts. The dashboard allows users to investigate trends in court disposals (at charge level) from April 2017, over a wide range of options. It will be updated quarterterly.
- justice analytical services criminal disposals dashboard (https://scotland.shinyapps.io/sg-criminal-disposals-dashboard/)
High-level summaries of statistics trends
- Crime and justice statistics: high-level summary of statistics trends 2019 (/publications/crime-and-justice-statistics-high-level-summary-of-statistics-trends-2019/)
Monitoring Framework for the Violence Prevention Framework

Violence Prevention Framework for Scotland: Monitoring Framework, 2025 (/publications/violence-prevention-framework-scotland-monitoring-framework-2025/)

Monitoring framework to support the delivery of the Violence Prevention Framework for Scotland.

Publication date 16 December 2025

Type Statistics

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- Journey times in the Scottish Criminal Justice System: analysis of equality factors of accused disposed in court (/publications/journey-times-in-the-scottish-criminal-justice-system-analysis-of-equality-factors-of-accused-disposed-in-court/)
- Short custodial disposals from court and the prison population (/publications/short-custodial-disposals-from-court-and-the-prison-population/)
- Conviction rate data for cases of rape and attempted rape (/publications/conviction-rate-data-for-rape/)
- Women in the justice system: evidence review (/publications/women-justice-system/)
- Costs of the criminal justice system in Scotland dataset: 2016-17 (published December 2019) (/publications/costs-of-the-criminal-justice-system-in-scotland-dataset-2016-17-published-december-2019/)
- Non-sexual violence in Scotland: report (/publications/non-sexual-violence-scotland/)
- Domestic abuse analytical paper (/publications/domestic-abuse-analytical-paper/)
- Assaults on police officers and emergency workers: 1999-00 to 2008-09 (/publications/assaults-on-police-officers-and-emergency-workers-1999-00-to-2008-09/)
- Crime and macroeconomic performance in Scotland (/publications/crime-and-macroeconomic-performance-in-scotland/)
- Assessing the scale and impact of illicit drug markets in Scotland (/publications/assessing-the-scale-and-impact-of-illicit-drug-markets-in-scotland/)
- Hearings in Scottish courts - ethnicity of individuals: analysis (/publications/analysis-ethnicity-individuals-subject-hearings-scottish-courts/)
About crime and justice statistics

Crime and justice statistics: justice analytical programme 2019-20 (/publications/crime-and-justice-statistics-justice-analytical-programme-2019-20/)

The 2019-20 programme of the justice analytical services team, who are responsible for crime and justice statistics in the Scottish Government.

Publication date 02 July 2019

Type Strategy/plan
- About crime and justice statistics: a resource for students (/publications/about-crime-and-justice-statistics/)
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