Contents
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Conventions used in figures and tables ............................................................................................ iii
List of figures and tables ..................................................................................................................... iv
Key points
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Introduction .................................................................................................................. 2
1.1
2
Overview .............................................................................................................. 2
Police recorded hate crime ......................................................................................... 4
2.1
Prevalence and trends......................................................................................... 4
2.2
Hate crimes by type of offence ............................................................................ 8
2.3
Hate crime outcomes......................................................................................... 10
2.4
Transferred or cancelled records....................................................................... 14
3
Racist Incidents ......................................................................................................... 16
Annex A
Hate crime and the EU Referendum......................................................................... 17
Annex B
Hate crime data sources and quality ....................................................................... 21
Introduction .................................................................................................................. 21
Police recorded crime data sources and validation process ....................................... 21
Further Information ............................................................................................................................. 23
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