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Hate Crime Statistics 1997: Uniform Crime Reports

NCJ Number
179254
Date Published
1998
Length
124 pages
Annotation
This report presents nationwide statistics on bias-motivated criminal incidents.
Abstract
The document contains information from 11,211 law enforcement agencies, representing nearly 223 million United States inhabitants, with definitions of categories and an explanation of data collection methodology. A section on Hate Crime Statistics, 1997, includes: (1) Narrative comments; (2) Number of incidents, offenses, victims and known offenders by bias motivation; (3) Location of incidents by bias motivation; (4) Number of offenses, victims and known offenders by offense; (5) Number of offenses; (6) Percent distribution of offenses by victim type; (7) Number of offenses by State; (8) Number of victims by bias motivation and offense type; (9) Percent distribution of bias motivation by victim type; and (10) Number of known offenders by race. Jurisdictional Hate Crime Statistics, 1997, includes: (1)Narrative comments; (2) Agency hate crime reporting by State; and (3) Number of incidents by bias motivation. Tables, notes, appendix