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The relationship between race and crime in the United Kingdom is the subject of academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Under the Criminal Justice Act 1991, section 95, the government collects annual statistics based on race and crime. [1] [2] [n 1]
Anonymous pamphlet, 1641. The history of violence against LGBT people in the United Kingdom is made up of assaults on gay men, lesbians, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex individuals ( LGBTQI ), legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United Kingdom. Those targeted by such violence are perceived to violate ...
It was recorded that hate crimes against British Chinese people between January and March 2020 have tripled the amount of hate crimes in the past two years in the UK. According to the London Metropolitan Police , between January and June 2020, 457 race-related crimes had occurred against British East and Southeast Asians .
Violent hate crimes against LGBT people tend to be especially brutal, even compared to other hate crimes: "an intense rage is present in nearly all homicide cases involving gay male victims". It is rare for a victim to just be shot; he is more likely to be stabbed multiple times, mutilated, and strangled.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales is an attempt to measure both the amount of crime, and the impact of crime on England and Wales. The original survey (carried out in 1982, to cover the 1981 year) covered all three judicial areas of the UK, and was therefore referred to as the British Crime Survey, but now it only covers England and Wales.
The UK charity Scope has conducted research into the prevalence and experience of disability hate crime, summarizing their findings and those of other disability groups in the report Getting Away With Murder Katharine Quarmby, who wrote the report and was the first British journalist to investigate disability hate crime, has also written a book ...
The most common crimes in England and Wales in the last 12 months are violent crimes (2,049,254), theft (1,789,462), Shoplifting (430,104), public order crimes (516,661), weapon possession (58,989), robberies (81,094) and theft from the person (125,563). The crime rate in the last 12 months in England and Wales reduced by a small margin of 1%.
A hate crime law is a law intended to deter bias-motivated violence. [8] Hate crime laws are distinct from laws against hate speech: hate crime laws enhance the penalties associated with conduct which is already criminal under other laws, while hate speech laws criminalize a category of speech.