Crime: key data sources
ScotPHO Community health and wellbeing profiles (2010)
The Scottish Public Health Observatory(ScotPHO) has published a series of health profiles for communities across Scotland which include crime indicators.
Greater Glasgow and Clyde community health and wellbeing profiles (2008)
The Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) published health and wellbeing profiles for communities in Greater Glasgow and Clyde in 2008. Included with a range of health related indicators were figures on serious violent crime, domestic abuse incidents, vandalism and drug offenders.
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, 2009-10
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 Justice Survey
A national survey of people's experiences and perceptions of crime throughout Scotland. There have been a series of similar surveys carried out every 3-4 years since 1993. The current survey involves interviewing a randomly selected adult in 13,000 households across Scotland per year.
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.