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1 results foundAuthor: Wagner, Alex Title: Analysis of Massachusetts Hate Crimes Data: An Overview of Reported Hate Crimes in Massachusetts Between 2000 and 2009 Summary: Reports of hate crime related incidents in the Commonwealth between 2000 and 2009 were analyzed utilizing data from the Massachusetts State Police Crime Reporting Unit (CRU). This report presents findings on the 3,6481 hate crime incidents in Massachusetts over the ten-year period. The CRU defines hate crimes as “any criminal act to which a bias motive is evident as a contributing factor. The Reporting Act covers bias on account of race, religion, ethnicity, handicap, gender, or sexual orientation. Hate crimes may be reported only by law enforcement agencies” (CRU,2006). The number of offenses, offenders, victims, and bias motivations may not coincide with the number of incidents or cases because each incident may consist of multiple offenses, bias motivations, victims, and offenders. Below are the key findings from our analyses. A trend analysis indicated there was a pronounced ten-year decline in reported hate crime incidents. This trend occurred across all bias categories (i.e., race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and gender), as well as for all specific bias types within bias categories. The year 2008 was an outlier in terms of the low number of overall reported hate crime incidents. Hate crime incidents rose between 2008 and 2009, however, the increase is not evident from 2007 to 2009. The vast majority of reported hate crimes (92.2%) only reported one bias motivation, while less than 1.5% of all reported hate crimes reported more than two bias motivations. The three most frequent bias motivation categories were based on race/ethnicity (58.3%), sexual orientation (21.5%), and religion (18.6%). Just these three bias motivation categories accounted for 98.3% of all hate crimes. This was generally consistent with research findings from other states and across the nation. The three most frequent within-bias motivation types for hate crimes were Anti-Black (31.7%), Anti-Gay (male, 17.5%), and Anti-Semitic (13.5%), again generally consistent with other research findings. White hate crime victims were more common than any other racial/ethnic background (52.3%), as opposed to victims from other race/ethnic groups: black (29.8%), Hispanic (7.1%), Asian (6.4%) or other (4.3%). Between 2000 and 2009, a third of hate crime victims were between the ages 16 and 25 (29.4%), whereas victims over the age of 25 accounted for more than 40 percent of hate crime victims (20.5% of victims were 36 to 45 and 20.2 percent were 26 to 35). Victims aged 10 and younger comprised the smallest fraction of reported hate crimes (2.1%). Details: Boston: Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, 2011. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 27, 2011 at: http://www.mass.gov/Eeops/docs/programs/fjj/analysis_of_reported_hate_crimes_in_massachusetts_between_2000_and_2009.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.mass.gov/Eeops/docs/programs/fjj/analysis_of_reported_hate_crimes_in_massachusetts_between_2000_and_2009.pdf Shelf Number: 122919 Keywords: Bias CrimesCrime StatisticsHate Crimes (Massachusetts)Victims of Crime |