The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is carried out by the US Census Bureau on behalf of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). This annual survey collects data on violent, property, and hate crime victimizations, both reported and not reported to the police. The NCVS definition of violent crime includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Property crime includes burglary/trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of theft. Hate crime victimizations are defined as violent and property crimes that the victim perceives to be motivated by bias against the victim's race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or religion. During the period of 2010-2019, 243,770 average annual victimizations were reported to the NCVS.
According to the just released BJS report Hate Crime Victimization, 2005-2019, violent hate crime victimizations accounted for 1.0% of all nonfatal crime victimizations in 2019. The report includes several detailed data tables on violent hate crime offenses, victims and offenders. The tables are very informative but can be a bit much, brimming with so many numbers that patterns are hard to see. In this post, I hope to clarify a subset of the table data that pertains to the race or ethnicity of violent hate crime victims and offenders by converting it to chart form.
Note that NCVS victimization data does not include homicide, because it is based on victim self-report surveys. Okay, here goes.
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Bias against the victim’s race, ethnicity, or national origin was the most common motivation for nonfatal violent hate crimes during the 2010-19 period. I’ll end with a chart on the demographic breakdown of those victims:
Reference:
Hate Crime Victimization, 2005–2019, Special Report NCJ 300954 by G. Kena and A. Thompson. September 2021