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Home Hate Crime 2011 Tables Table 8

Table 8

Incidents

Victim Type
by Bias Motivation, 2011

Bias motivation Total
incidents
Victim type
Individual Business/
financial
institution
Government Religious
organization
Society/
public
1
Other/
unknown/
multiple
Total 6,222 5,001 294 197 204 14 512
Single-Bias Incidents 6,216 4,996 294 196 204 14 512
Race 2,917 2,458 139 112 14 11 183
Religion 1,233 626 103 63 184 0 257
Sexual Orientation 1,293 1,216 16 10 4 1 46
Ethnicity/National Origin 720 647 35 10 2 1 25
Disability 53 49 1 1 0 1 1
Multiple-Bias Incidents2 6 5 0 1 0 0 0
  • 1 The victim type society/public is collected only in the National Incident-Based Reporting System. See Methodology.
  • 2 In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.

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