Crime: key data sources

Constituency Health and Well-being Profiles (2004)

NHS Health Scotland's Constituency Health and Well-being profiles, published in 2004, present a range of health related indicators for Scotland's 73 Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies. Recorded crime numbers and rates for five separate crime types were included in the crime and safety domain of each constituency profile.

Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime is a longitudinal study of criminal offending and anti-social behaviour among young people and is currently funded by the Scottish Executive and the Nuffield Foundation. The study follows a single year group of approximately 4,300 young people who started secondary schools in the City of Edinburgh in 1998.  The study collects information from young people, parents, schools, other agencies and from neighbourhoods.

Recorded Crime in Scotland (2005-06)

Annual bulletin presents statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces for all police force areas and local authorities.

Scottish Crime Survey (2003)

A national survey of people's experiences and perceptions of crime throughout Scotland. The 2003 survey covers extent of crime, trends, risk and perceptions of crime and drug use. This is part of a series of such surveys carried out every 3-4 years since 1993. Recently the survey was redeveloped into the larger Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey (SCVS) in June 2004. Results from this survey are still to be published.

Scottish Household Survey

A Scottish Executive survey whose aims include informing policy on transport and social justice. The survey includes questions related to experience of crime, perceptions of crime and the safety of neighbourhoods.

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)

The latest release of the SIMD contains 37 indicators in seven domains: Current Income, Employment, Health, Education Skills and Training, Geographic Access to Services, Housing and a new Crime Domain.  The SIMD is presented at data zone level, enabling small pockets of deprivation to be identified. The data zones, which have a median population size of 769, are ranked from most deprived (1) to least deprived (6,505) on the overall SIMD and on each of the individual domains. The result is a comprehensive picture of relative area deprivation across Scotland.

Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics

The SNS web site provides figures on a range of recorded crimes and offences (as numbers and rates per 10,000) broken down by local authority, which can be downloaded as spreadsheet files. The site also provides information about offenders and their background circumstances derived from criminal justice social enquiry reports.