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This report presents data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Hate Crime Statistics Program (HCSP) on hate crime incidents and victims from 2010 to 2019. The HCSP, which began in 1990, collects hate crime data regarding criminal offenses motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race or ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity. The HCSP includes crimes reported to police that, after investigation, reveal sufficient evidence to support being recorded as hate crimes. The report examines incidents and victims of hate crime recorded by law enforcement, trends over time in total hate crimes, and hate crimes motivated by bias against the victim’s race, ethnicity, or ancestry.

This report presents National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data on hate crime victimizations from 2005 to 2019. Hate crimes in the NCVS include violent and property crimes that the victim perceived to be motivated by bias against the victim's race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religion. It includes crimes reported and not reported to police. The report examines the number of hate crimes over time, characteristics of hate crimes, perceived bias motivations for these hate crimes, reporting to police and reasons hate crimes were not reported, and demographic characteristics of victims and offenders.

This report was produced by RTI International for BJS under award number 2020-85-CX-K017. It describes testing efforts designed to improve the measurement of hate crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) as part of the NCVS Instrument Redesign Research and Development Program. It also describes the methodology and findings from a small-scale quantitative and qualitative online test of new and revised NCVS hate crime questions. The testing was informed by a review and assessment of state and federal hate crime laws compared to the BJS definition, and by analyses of hate crime data and interview narratives derived from the current NCVS hate crime questions.

This report uses data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Federal Justice Statistics Program to describe criminal prosecutions over federal hate crimes from 2005 to 2019. Data were collected from the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys’ Legal Information Office Network System and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Detailed incident-level data on residents' self-reported experiences with hate crime, both reported and not reported to police, from a nationally representative sample of about 225,000 persons age 12 or older. BJS has collected these data annually since 2003. Hate crime is defined as a violent (rape or sexual assault, robbery, assault) or property (burglary, motor vehicle theft, or theft) that the victim has reason to believe was motivated by bias due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability or religion. Data file includes victim demographic characteristics; offender characteristics; nature of the hate crime and location of occurrence; presence of a weapon; victim injury; economic cost of the crime; reporting to police and police response; type of bias motivating the crime, and victims' evidence that incident was motivated by hate.

Since the early 1990s through its Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has collected administrative records detailing the processing of every matter/case through five components of the federal justice system: 1) U.S. Marshals Services, 2) Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, 3) Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 4) U.S. Sentencing Commission and 5) the Federal Bureau of Prisons. To identify hate crimes using the FJSP data requires assessing a combination of agency offense codes and U.S. criminal code statute information. Needed information to identify hate crimes is not available for the stages of arrest and imprisonment, while necessary variables are available for the stages of prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing.

Presents National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data on hate crime victimization from 2004 to 2015. Hate crimes are violent or property crimes that the victim perceived to be motivated by bias due to the victim's race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religion. The report examines the perceived motivation for the hate crime, evidence that the crime was motivated by bias, demographic characteristics of victims and offenders, and hate crimes reported and not reported to police. It compares characteristics of hate crime and nonhate crime victimizations. The report also compares the NCVS and FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting hate crime statistics.