Scotland Crime Stats
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- Assault rate: Number of assaults recorded by police per 100,000 population
- Assaults: Number of assaults recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Auto theft: Number of motor vehicle thefts (car thefts) recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Burglaries: Number of burglaries recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Convictions: Number of people convicted of a crime.
- Drugs > Annual cannabis use: Estimate of percentage of 15-64 year old population who use Cannabis.
- Drugs > Lifetime cannabis use: Adult lifetime cannabis use.
- Kidnappings: Number of kidnappings recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Murder rate: Homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants in various countries.
- Murders: Number of convictions for intentional homicides in the given year.
- Police officers: Number of police officers per 100,000 population.
- Robberies: Number of robberies recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Serious assault rate: Number of major assaults recorded by police per 100,000 population
- Serious assaults: Number of major assaults recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
- Violent crime > Intentional homicide rate: Homicides per 100’000 residents. Homicide is the death of a person purposefully inflicted by another person (it excludes suicides) outside of a state of war. Homicide is a broader category than murder, as it also includes manslaughter. The exact legal definition varies across countries, some of which include infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and deaths caused by dangerous driving.
SOURCES: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 2011; European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 2011; https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2011/World_Drug_Report_2011_ebook.pdf, World Drug Report 2011, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2011, p. 217.; Mostly Table GPS-8 Part (i) ''Lifetime prevalence of drug use among all adults (aged 15 to 64 years old) in nationwide surveys among the general population'' EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction) unless otherwise referred on Wikipedia: Adult lifetime cannabis use by country; Wikipedia: List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade
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- Scotland ranked first for assault rate amongst Christian countries in 2011.
- Scotland ranked first for assaults globally in 2006.
- Scotland ranked third last for burglaries amongst English speaking countries in 2006.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 9 for auto theft since 1996.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 38 for violent crime > intentional homicide rate since 1946.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 29 for robberies since 1996.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 23 for prison staff since 1995.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 25 for prosecutors since 1995.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 39 for judges since 1995.
- Scotland has ranked in the top 21 for counterfeiting since 2005.
