Hate Crime 2011
Statistics on police reports with an identified hate crime motive. English summary of Brå report 2012:7
This report summarizes the results from the hate crime statistics for 2011. The main aim of the statistics is to provide information about level, development and structure of police reports with identified hate crime motives.
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- © Brottsförebyggande rådet 2012
- urn:nbn:se:bra-476
- Report 2012:7
About the study
Hate crime statistics can among other things be used to study scope
and development of reported hate crimes in Sweden. This in turn
may be of assistance when making decisions about measures regarding investigating, combatting and preventing this type of criminality.
In recent years, Brå has made extensive changes in the hate crime
statistics, particularly in the report for 2008, where there was a
change in how hate crime is defined. Some smaller changes have also
been introduced for this year’s hate crime report. In order to increase
production efficiency, statistics on victims and suspects have been
excluded, as has the geographical analysis of reports marked as suspected hate crimes by the police (the RAR study). In addition, in this
year’s report comparisons are made a few years back to illustrate the
development over time. Also, for the first time the Christianophobic
motive is presented as a separate category.