Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2016-17

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Table 24 Drug treatment and testing orders commenced by age, gender, employment status, ethnicity and length of orders: 2012-13 to 2016-17

  2012-13 2013-14 3 2014-15 4 2015-16 4 2016-17
Number
Total 639 625 551 530 478
Age group 1
16-17 5 1 1 1 -
18-20 9 13 16 10 8
21-25 69 73 60 51 45
26-30 174 144 118 124 96
31-40 289 286 261 247 248
Over 40 93 108 95 97 81
Gender
Male 512 498 437 419 384
Female 127 127 114 111 94
Employment status
Full-time education 2 2 1 6 -
Employed/self employed 14 18 10 18 16
Unemployed 484 347 294 316 280
Government training scheme 2 - 1 1 -
Economically inactive 2 104 167 152 143 128
Other 28 63 91 45 30
Not known 5 28 2 1 24
Ethnicity
White 613 595 534 500 455
Asian 1 2 1 3 3
African, Caribbean or Black 4 5 - - 1
Mixed 5 2 2 4 1
Other 4 6 - 4 -
Not known/not provided 12 15 14 19 18
Average length (months) 18.1 17.4 17.7 17.8 18.0
  Percentage
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Age group 1
16-17 0.8 * * * -
18-20 1.4 2.1 2.9 1.9 1.7
21-25 10.8 11.7 10.9 9.6 9.4
26-30 27.2 23.0 21.4 23.4 20.1
31-40 45.2 45.8 47.4 46.6 51.9
Over 40 14.6 17.3 17.2 18.3 16.9
Gender
Male 80.1 79.7 79.3 79.1 80.3
Female 19.9 20.3 20.7 20.9 19.7
Employment status (where known)
Full-time education * * * 1.1 -
Employed/self employed 2.2 3.0 1.8 3.4 3.5
Unemployed 76.3 58.1 53.6 59.7 61.7
Government training scheme * - * * -
Economically inactive 2 16.4 28.0 27.7 27.0 28.2
Other 4.4 10.6 16.6 8.5 6.6
Ethnicity (where known)
White 97.8 97.5 99.4 97.8 98.9
Asian * * * 0.6 0.7
African, Caribbean or Black 0.6 0.8 - - *
Mixed 0.8 * * 0.8 *
Other 0.6 1.0 - 0.8 -

Note: Figures include DTTO IIs, which have been piloted in the City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian areas since June 2008.
1. Age is at commencement of order. Figures may include a small number of under 16s.
2. Includes those who are retired, supported by family, caring for home/family or long-term sick/disabled.
3. In 2013-14, changes were made in City of Edinburgh and Midlothian as to how the reason for being unemployed was recorded. This led to some orders which would previously have been recorded as unemployed being recorded as economically inactive.
4. Figures for 2014-15 and 2015-16 have been revised from those previously published due to the receipt of updated information from some councils.

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