Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2015/16
Figure 2.5: Breakdown of hate crime by selected offence types and monitored strand, 2015/16
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90
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Percentage
70
60
50
40
30
20
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0
Race
Religion
Sexual
orientation
Public order offences
Violence against the person without injury
Other notifiable offences
Disability
Transgender
Total hate crime
Violence against the person with injury
Criminal damage and arson
Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office
2.3 HATE CRIME OUTCOMES
The Home Office collects information on the outcomes of police recorded offences, including those
that are flagged as hate crimes. For more information on outcomes see Crime Outcomes in England
and Wales 2015/16.
Crime outcomes presented in previous hate crime bulletins focused on the number of outcomes
assigned in a particular year (irrespective of when the crime was recorded). This year, the analysis is
based on how offences recorded in 2015/16 have been dealt with. A number of outcomes included in
the analysis will have been assigned after the end of the 2015/16 financial year. Some offences will
not yet have been assigned an outcome and so these figures are subject to change over time.
Racially or religiously aggravated offence outcomes
At the time these data were analysed by the Home Office12, 91 per cent of racially or religiously
aggravated offences had been assigned an outcome compared with 94 per cent of their nonaggravated counterparts (data not shown).
Figure 2.6 shows that racially or religiously aggravated offences were more likely to be dealt with by a
charge/summons than their non-aggravated counterparts, reflecting the serious nature of racially or
religiously aggravated offences. In particular:
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June 2016.
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