This
is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Home
Office, Ministry of Justice and the Office for National Statistics. It brings
together a range of official statistics on hate crime from across the crime and
criminal justice system, as well as the Crime Survey for England and Wales
(CSEW).
Including data from various sources in a joint publication makes it
easier for users to find the information they need without having to compile it
from different statistical publications. This publication allows the Government
and users to examine the levels of hate crime and reporting and patterns of
offending and will help Police and Crime Commissioners, police forces and other
criminal justice agencies to focus their resources appropriately.
Hate crime is defined as ‘any criminal offence which is perceived, by
the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice
towards someone based on a personal characteristic’. The five monitored strands
are race, religion/faith, sexual orientation, disability, and gender-identity.
Crimes based on hostility to age, gender, or appearance, for example, can also
be hate crimes, although they are not part of the five centrally monitored
strands.
The report provides estimates from the CSEW on the level of hate crime
in England and Wales, as well as information on the victims’ experience of hate
crime and whether they told the police about the hate crimes.
Information from the police covers the number of crimes which were
‘flagged’ by the police, during the process of recording crime, as being motivated
by one or more of the five centrally monitored strands, how the police dealt
these offences, and what types of hate crime offences the police recorded.
More detailed information is available for racially or religiously
aggravated offences, as defined by statute, which form a subset of total police
recorded ‘flagged’ hate crimes. Information is presented from police recording
through to court outcomes, including sentences handed out in court. These
aggravated offences accounted for over 80 per cent of the racially or
religiously motivated ‘flagged’ hate crimes recorded by the police in 2012 to
2013.
An
overview of hate crime in England and Wales: bulletin tables
An
overview of hate crime in England and Wales: appendix tables
Pre-release access to: An overview of hate crime in England and Wales
