NCJ Number
238670
Date Published
July 2011
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This report provides statistics of hate crimes in New York State in 2010.
Abstract
This report meets the statutory reporting requirements of the Hate Crimes Act of 2000 and details the findings of a statistical analysis of hate crimes reported in New York State for 2010. This report is organized into three sections. The first section describes hate crime incidents reported by law enforcement in 2010. Hate crime incidents are analyzed by offense, bias motivation and demographic characteristics of known offenders. The second section reports on arrests made in 2010 for hate crime offenses and the disposition of these arrests through May 2011. The third section is an appendix comprised of a series of tables comparing hate crime incident data from 2009 and 2010. Data sources analyzed in this report include crime data drawn from hate crime incident reports submitted by local and State police, and arrest and disposition data derived from the computerized Criminal History (CCH) system at the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). Tables, figure, and appendix