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Hate Crime
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Hate crime victimizations are based on victims’ perception of the offenders’ motivations. For a crime to be classified as a hate crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the victim must report at least one of three types of evidence that the act was motivated by hate: the offender used hate language, the offender left behind hate symbols, or police investigators confirmed that the incident was hate crime.
Summary findings
- From 2003 to 2009, the rate of violent hate crime victimizations in the United States decreased from 0.8 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older to 0.5 per 1,000.
- In nearly 90% of hate crime victimizations occurring between 2003 and 2009, the victim suspected the offender was motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice or both.
- In about 37% of violent hate crimes the offender knew the victim; in violent nonhate crimes, half of all victims knew the offender.
- Eight hate crime homicides (murders/non-negligent manslaughters) occurred in 2009.
- The majority of violent hate crimes were interracial while the majority of nonhate violent crimes were intraracial.
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