Table 8: incidents, victim type, by bias motivation, 2012.

The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program's Hate Crime Statistics Program.

General comments

* This table presents the number of hate crime incidents distributed by the victim type and bias motivation.

* The Hate Crime Statistics Program collects data about both single-bias and multiple-bias hate crimes. A single-bias incident is defined as an incident in which one or more offense types are motivated by the same bias. A multiple-bias incident is defined as an incident in which more than one offense type occurs and at least two offense types are motivated by different biases.

* In the Hate Crime Statistics Program, the victim of a hate crime may be an individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole.

Methodology

The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies submitting one or more hate crime incidents for at least 1 month of the calendar year. The published data, therefore, do not necessarily represent reports from each participating agency for all 12 months (or 4 quarters) of the calendar year.

Table 8

Incidents
Victim Type
by Bias Motivation, 2012

 Victim type

 Business/
 Total financial
Bias motivation incidents Individual institution

Total 5,796 4,444 295

Single-Bias Incidents 5,790 4,439 295
 Race 2,797 2,240 146
 Religion 1,099 489 92
 Sexual Orientation 1,135 1,050 26
 Ethnicity/National Origin 667 578 27
 Disability 92 82 4

Multiple-Bias Incidents (2) 6 5 0

 Victim type

 Religious Society/
Bias motivation Government organization public (1)

Total 190 178 197

Single-Bias Incidents 190 177 197
 Race 105 12 152
 Religion 52 154 15
 Sexual Orientation 22 4 10
 Ethnicity/National Origin 11 7 14
 Disability 0 0 6

Multiple-Bias Incidents (2) 0 1 0

 Victim type

 Other/
 unknown/
Bias motivation multiple

Total 492

Single-Bias Incidents 492
 Race 142
 Religion 297
 Sexual Orientation 23
 Ethnicity/National Origin 30
 Disability 0

Multiple-Bias Incidents (2) 0

(1) The victim type society-public is collected only in the National
Incident-Based Reporting System. See Methodology.

(2) In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a)
more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at
least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.

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