NCJ Number
247332
Date Published
October 2012
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This annual report provides data on hate crimes in New York State that occurred during 2011.
Abstract
Major findings from this report on hate crimes in New York State during 2011 include the following: a total of 554 hate crime incidents were reported during the year, a decrease of 21.2 percent from 2010. New York City reported 242 hate crime incidents (down 30.9 percent from 2010) and 161 hate crime arrests, while the rest of the State reported 281 incidents (down 17.6 percent) and 125 arrests. Hate crimes against persons (278) decreased by 40.1 percent during the year while hate crimes against property (276) increased 15.5 percent; the most frequently reported bias motivations for hate crimes against persons were anti-male homosexual (25.2 percent), anti-Black (24.5 percent), and anti-Jewish (17.6 percent). Most hate crime incidents involved criminal mischief (45.8 percent) or simple assault (43.5 percent); and of the 122 offenders convicted of a hate crime as of June 2012, 38.5 percent received a jail or prison sentence, and 11.5 percent were sentenced to probation. This report was compiled by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Office of Justice Research & Performance as part of the statutory reporting requirements of the Hate Crime Act of 2000. Data for the report were obtained from several sources: hate crime incident reports submitted by local and State police, and arrest and disposition data from the State's computerized criminal history system. The data in the report is organized into three sections: hate crime incidents reported by law enforcement in 2011, arrests made in 2011 for hate crime offenses and the disposition of those arrests, and a series of tables comparing hate crime incident data from 2009 through 2011. Tables, figures, and appendixes