Victims.In the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the victim of a hate crime may be an individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole. Nationwide in 2005, law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). reported that there were 8,804 victims of hate crimes. Of these victims, nine were victimized in seven multiple-bias offenses. By Bias Motivation An analysis of data for victims of single-bias hate crime incidents showed that: * 55.7 percent of the victims were targeted because of a bias against a race. * 16.0 percent were victimized because of a bias against a religious belief. * 14.0 percent were victimized because of a bias against an ethnicity/national origin. * 13.8 percent were targeted because of a bias against a particular sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. . * 0.6 percent were targeted because of a bias against a disability. (Based on Table 1.) Racial Bias Among the single-bias hate crime incidents in 2005, there were 4,895 victims of racially motivated mo·ti·vate tr.v. mo·ti·vat·ed, mo·ti·vat·ing, mo·ti·vates To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel. mo hate crime. * 67.9 percent were victims of an anti-black bias. * 19.9 percent were victims of an anti-white bias. * 5.3 percent were victims of a bias against a group of individuals in which more than one race was represented (anti-multiple races, group). * 4.9 percent were victims of an anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias. * 2.0 percent were victims of an anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native bias. (Based on Table 1.) Religious Bias Of the 1,405 victims of an anti-religion hate crime: * 69.5 percent were victims of an anti-Jewish bias. * 10.7 percent were victims of an anti-Islamic bias. * 7.5 percent were victims of a bias against other unspecified Adj. 1. unspecified - not stated explicitly or in detail; "threatened unspecified reprisals" specified - clearly and explicitly stated; "meals are at specified times" religions (anti-other religion). * 4.3 percent were victims of an anti-Catholic bias. * 4.1 percent were victims of an anti-Protestant bias. * 3.3 percent were victims of a bias against groups of individuals of varying religions (anti-multiple religions, group). * 0.4 percent were victims of an anti-Atheist/Agnostic bias. (Based on Table 1.) Sexual-Orientation Bias In 2005, of the 1,213 victims targeted due to a sexual-orientation bias: * 61.3 percent were victims of an anti-male homosexual homosexual /ho·mo·sex·u·al/ (-sek´shoo-al) 1. pertaining to, characteristic of, or directed toward the same sex. 2. one who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex. bias. * 19.2 percent were victims of an anti-homosexual bias. * 15.3 percent were victims of an anti-female homosexual bias. * 2.3 percent were victims of an anti-bisexual bias. * 1.9 percent were victims of an anti-heterosexual bias. (Based on Table 1.) Ethnicity/National Origin Bias Hate crimes motivated by the offender's bias toward a particular ethnicity/national origin were directed at 1,228 victims. Of these victims: * 58.8 percent were targeted because of an anti-Hispanic bias. * 41.2 percent were victimized because of a bias against other ethnicities/national origins. (Based on Table 1.) Disability Bias Of the 54 victims of a hate crime due to a bias against a disability: * 33 were targets of an anti-mental disability bias. * 21 were victims of an anti-physical disability bias. (See Table 1.) By Crime Category Of the 8,804 victims of a hate crime in 2005, 59.0 percent were victims of crimes against persons and 40.1 percent were victims of crimes against property. One percent were victims of crimes against society. (Based on Table 2.) By Offense Type Crimes Against Persons There were 5,190 hate crime victims of crimes against persons in 2005. Regarding these victims and offenses: * Six persons were murdered and three were forcibly forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. raped, each comprising 0.1 percent of hate crime victims. * 48.9 percent experienced intimidation. * 30.2 percent were victims of simple assault. * 20.5 percent were victims of aggravated assault A person is guilty of aggravated assault if he or she attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another or causes such injury purposely, knowingly, or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or attempts to cause or purposely or . * 0.3 percent were victims of other types of offenses, which are collected only in the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS NIBRS National Incident-Based Reporting System (US DoD) ). (Based on Table 2.) Crimes Against Property In 2005, there were 3,530 hate crime victims of crimes against property. Of these: * 81.3 percent were victims of destruction/damage or vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and . * 6.6 percent were victims of larceny-theft. * 4.7 percent were victims of burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. . * 4.4 percent were victims of robbery. * 1.4 percent were victims of arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. . * 0.5 percent were victims of motor vehicle theft Motor vehicle theft or grand theft auto is a criminal act of theft generally understood to refer to the stealing of automobiles, buses, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trucks, trailers or any other motorized vehicle legally allowed on public roads and highways, including attempted . * 1.2 percent were victims of other hate crime offenses, which are collected only in the NIBRS. (Based on Table 2.) Crimes Against Society Eighty-four victims of hate crimes were victims of crimes against society. (See Table 2.) |
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