Hate Crime

(asked on 25th May 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Karl Turner Portrait
Karl Turner
(Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for each category of hate crime since 2010.

Answered by
Robert Buckland Portrait
Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 6th June 2016

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of prosecutions flagged as hate crimes. Hate crimes comprise offences motivated by hostility or prejudice to a person’s race or perceived race, religion or perceived religion, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, disability or perceived disability and transgender identity or perceived transgender identity. These data are accurate only to the extent that the flag has been correctly applied.

The tables below show the number and proportion of convictions and overall prosecutions, by each category of hate crime, during each of the last five available years:

TOTAL HATE CRIME PROSECUTIONS

Convictions

Total

2010-11

12,651

82.8%

15,284

2011-12

11,843

83.4%

14,196

2012-13

10,794

82.6%

13,070

2013-14

11,915

84.7%

14,074

2014-15

12,220

82.9%

14,738

RACIAL HATE CRIME PROSECUTIONS

Convictions

Total

2010-11

10,566

83.1%

12,711

2011-12

9,933

84.4%

11,774

2012-13

9,107

83.3%

10,935

2013-14

10,069

85.2%

11,818

2014-15

10,123

83.5%

12,130

RELIGIOUS HATE CRIME PROSECUTIONS

Convictions

Total

2010-11

472

83.4%

566

2011-12

479

80.8%

593

2012-13

308

77.2%

399

2013-14

463

84.2%

550

2014-15

557

83.8%

665

HOMOPHOBIC & TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIME PROSECUTIONS (1)

Convictions

Total

2010-11

1,034

80.7%

1,281

2011-12

951

78.7%

1,208

2012-13

885

80.7%

1,096

2013-14

913

80.7%

1,132

2014-15

1,037

81.2%

1,277

(1) A separate flag for Transphobic crime was introduced in December 2012 following the amendment to the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

DISABILITY HATE CRIME PROSECUTIONS

Convictions

Total

2010-11

579

79.8%

726

2011-12

480

77.3%

621

2012-13

494

77.2%

640

2013-14

470

81.9%

574

2014-15

503

75.5%

666

Data Source: CPS Management Information System

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