Hate crime, England and Wales, 2020 to 2021
Statistics on hate crimes recorded by the police.
Applies to England and Wales
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This publication provides information on the number of hate crimes from police recorded data in England and Wales from April 2020 to March 2021. The bulletin covers the extent and trends in hate crime for all forces, with additional analysis based upon more detailed data supplied by 31 police forces on the types of offences associated with hate crime.
Hate crime is defined as ‘any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic.’ There are five centrally monitored strands of hate crime:
- race or ethnicity
- religion or beliefs
- sexual orientation
- disability
- transgender identity
The publication includes estimates on the number of hate crime incidents from the Crime Survey for England and Wales for the combined survey years of year ending March 2018, year ending March 2019 and year ending March 2020.