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Scottish Offenders Index

Summary

Abstract

The Scottish Offenders Index dataset encapsulates offences dealt with by courts in Scotland, sentencing outcomes and characteristics of convicted offenders.

Keywords

Scotland ADR Scotland Administrative Justice Administrative Data Research

Publisher

Documentation

Description

The Scottish Offenders Index is a dataset that covers all convictions where a sentence was imposed since the beginning of 1989, and the main offence involved was either a crime in Groups 1-5 of the Scottish Government’s classification of crimes, or some offences in Group 6.
  • Associated media

    • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

      File name

      Scottish Offenders Index Data Dictionary

      Type

      .XLSX

  • Is part of
    • NOT APPLICABLE

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    country

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/1989
  • End date
    01/01/2021
  • Frequency
    Irregular
  • Distribution release date
    28/04/2026

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Administrative
  • Source
    Other
  • Collection situation
    Not available

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    Access requires approval

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Application of statistical disclosure control
  • Resource creator
    Scottish Government
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    CSV

Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
    • Not available
  • Linkage opportunity
    This is a standalone dataset and is not linkable to any other dataset.
  • Tools
    • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

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