A Official Statistics Publication for Scotland
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Commentary
2.1 Incidents recorded by the police, by police force area
2.2 Detail of the incidents
2.3 Crimes recorded resulting from the incidents
2.4 Victims of racist incidents
2.5 Perpetrators of racist incidents
3. Notes on the statistics used in this bulletin
3.1 Background
3.2 Returns
3.3 Recording Issues
3.4 Reporting Practices
3.5 Crimes and offences cleared up
3.6 Definitions
3.7 Classification
3.8 Scottish Crime Recording Standard
3.9 Census figures for Scottish Population 2001
4. Classification of Crimes and Offences as used in this bulletin
5. Appendix of Tables
Table 1 Racist incidents recorded, by police force area
Table 2 Racist incidents recorded, by local authority area
Table 3 Racist incidents recorded, by location of incident
Table 4 Racist incidents recorded, by quarter
Table 5 Racist incidents recorded, by day of week
Table 6 Racist incidents recorded, by category of person making initial report
Crimes
Table 7a Crimes recorded by the police as part of racist incidents
Table 7b Clear-up rate of crimes recorded by the police as part of racist incidents
Victims
Table 8 Ethnic origin of victims of racist incidents
Table 9 Main language of victims of racist incidents
Table 10 Age and gender of victims of racist incidents
Table 11 Number of previous incidents reported to police by victim
Perpetrators
Table 12 Ethnic origin of perpetrators of racist incidents
Table 13 Main language of perpetrators of racist incidents
Table 14 Age and gender of perpetrators of racist incidents
Table 15 Police action taken with regard to perpetrator
AN OFFICIAL STATISTICS PUBLICATION FOR SCOTLAND
Additional Datasets for Racist Incidents