Crime: key data sources

Greater Glasgow and Clyde community health and wellbeing profiles - GCPH

The Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) published health and wellbeing profiles for communities in Greater Glasgow and Clyde in 2007. Included with a range of health related indicators were figures on serious violent crime, domestic abuse incidents, vandalism and drug offenders.

Community health and wellbeing profiles - ScotPHO

The Scottish Public Health Observatory(ScotPHO) published a similar set of health profiles for communities in the rest of Scotland( ie. outside Greater Glasgow and Clyde) in 2007 which included crime rates and hospital discharges after assault.

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, 2007/08

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 and Victimisation Survey 2006

A national survey of people's experiences and perceptions of crime throughout Scotland.  There have been 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).

Scottish Household Survey

A Scottish Government 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.