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Understanding the nature of hate crime Published:
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Report outlines characteristics of victims and perpetrators.
A new report into the extent of hate crimes committed in Scotland has highlighted almost two-thirds of all race-related hate offences had a visible minority ethnic (non-white) victim, a group that makes up around 4% of the population.
The detailed study looking at the characteristics of victims and perpetrators of reported hate crime incidents in 2018-19 also found that:
around a third of crimes involved a victim who experienced the incident at work
almost two-thirds of hate crime victims and three-quarters of perpetrators were male
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