Hate Crime

Police recorded hate crime. Hate crimes are taken to mean any crime where the perpetrator's hostility or prejudice against an identifiable group of people is a factor in determining who is victimised. For the agreed definition of hate crime see: http://www.report-it.org.uk. The figures in this table do not constitute all hate crime recorded by forces; these figures represent recorded hate crime data for the 5 monitored hate crime strands only.