Crown Prosecution Service report: Hate Crime Annual Report 2016–17

In 2007–08, the conviction rate for hate crime cases was 79.8%. In 2016–17 this rose to 83.4%, an increase of 3.6 percentage points.

This is from the Crown Prosecution Service’s annual hate crime report (pdf), in October 2017.

This report summarises 10 years’ of data on hate crime and the annual trends in 16–17. It’s also an analysis of the key prosecutions in each hate crime strand, and this includes:

  1. Disability hate crime
  2. Homophobic
  3. Biphobic
  4. Transphobic hate crime
  5. Racially aggravated hate crime
  6. Religiously aggravated hate crime
  7. Offences of stirring up hatred and crimes against older people. 

Read the full report (pdf).

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