The Scottish Government does not hold data on arrests but it is possible to derive information on racial hate crimes from the recorded crime database. Crimes of racially aggravated harassment and racially aggravated conduct recorded by the police broken down by local authority is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib number 58575.
With regards to people being charged the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) have published information up to 2015-16 on hate crime charges reported to them by the police: http://www.crownoffice.gov.uk/publications/equality-and-diversity
This report contains details on the number of charges where a decision is awaiting on how to proceed and where it was decided not to proceed to court. The reasons given for why cases were not proceeded to court ("no action") are presented in Table 8. It is not possible to derive a local authority breakdown from the COPFS database.
Neither the Scottish Government or the COPFS hold information on the faith group, gender, race or country of origin of the victim.
Statistics on the number of people proceeded against and convicted for crimes with a racial aggravator recorded, broken down by local authority, is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib number 58575. Statistics are presented on a financial year basis up to 2015-16 and are not available on a monthly basis thereafter.
The table below shows the sentencing information requested. Please note that the statistical sources in this answer is not directly comparable due to timing differences. For example, the COPFS figures measure individual charges at the case marking stage while the sentencing information are representative of closed cases that have reached a final verdict in court. This means information relating to an individual could be recorded in different years depending on the stage of the justice system. In addition, a court case can cover more than one charge or count of recorded crime but the sentencing statistics only count the main charge in a case.
People convicted with a racial aggravator recorded against the main charge, by main penalty 2007-08 to 2015-16
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2007-08
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2008-09
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2009-10
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2010-11
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2011-12
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2012-13
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2013-14
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2014-15
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2015-16
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Custody
|
135
|
110
|
92
|
110
|
139
|
122
|
134
|
145
|
155
|
Community sentence
|
111
|
117
|
93
|
127
|
135
|
184
|
190
|
188
|
192
|
Fine
|
342
|
287
|
309
|
279
|
272
|
271
|
247
|
260
|
281
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Other
|
86
|
69
|
69
|
98
|
80
|
119
|
128
|
109
|
133
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Total
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674
|
583
|
563
|
614
|
626
|
696
|
699
|
702
|
761
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average custodial sentence (days)
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181
|
241
|
349
|
216
|
225
|
195
|
252
|
255
|
195
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Average fine (£)
|
288
|
288
|
302
|
323
|
300
|
302
|
285
|
316
|
299
|
Source: Criminal Proceedings database