{"id":5070,"date":"2023-09-27T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:17:02","slug":"high-charge-rate-in-scotlands-domestic-abuse-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/high-charge-rate-in-scotlands-domestic-abuse-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"High charge rate in Scotland\u2019s domestic abuse cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 94% of the 30,139 domestic abuse charges reported to the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland in 2022-23 were pursued through the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The cases included seven murders or culpable homicides, 491 of attempted murder or serious assault, and 639 rapes or attempted rapes. In 86% of the cases, the perpetrator was male.<\/p>\n<p>The most commonly reported offence was threatening and abusive behaviour at 27%, followed by common assault at 24%. Coercive control accounted for 5.8%, and bail breaches and other crimes against public justice made up 23%, the <em>Press Association<\/em> news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain commented: \u201cWe know that crimes perpetrated behind closed doors are every bit as serious as those which may be witnessed by many. Perpetrators must be brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the cases which did not proceed to court, 4% were categorised as no action, mainly due to insufficient evidence, while 2% were dealt with by direct measures, an alternative to prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the total of reported domestic abuse cases fell by 8.0% compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 94% of the 30,139 domestic abuse charges reported to the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland in 2022-23 were pursued through the courts. The cases included seven murders or culpable homicides, 491 of attempted murder or serious assault, and 639 rapes or attempted rapes. In 86% of the cases, the perpetrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}