Monthly figures on community payback orders issued by Scottish courts provide early information on sentencing trends. This temporary data collection is published by the Scottish Government as Official Statistics. The information will be collected annually from local authorities starting from the 2011-12 period.
Use Cases
- Track monthly sentencing volumes based on the monthly figures mentioned in the description
- Analyze trends in community-based penalties over time based on the annual collection from 2011-12
- Compare the application of different order types based on the 'type of orders' referenced in the description
Strengths
- Data is designated as Official Statistics by the Scottish Government
- Provides monthly granularity for tracking short-term trends
- Covers a time period starting from 2011-12
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- Scottish Government
- Collection Method
- Collected from local authorities
- Time Range
- From 2011-12 onwards
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:29.310753; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Scotland