Overall numbers of racist & hate crime

Code:: S1
Key Area:: Racist violence - Hate Speech Statistics
Strand(s):: Statistics

04/03/2012 - 10:41

Short Answer

Yes.

Qualitative Info

The Swedish National Council on Crime prevention (Brottsförebygganderådet, Brå) is a Government agency assigned to collect the official statistics on hate crimes in Sweden. These reports are primarily a statistical summary of the hate crimes reported to the police. The last published annual report on hate crimes in Sweden in 2010 (Hatbrott 2010:12). The report noted that nearly 5,800 hate crime cases were reported to the police. The majority of them, i.e. more than 3,800 cases, were identified as xenophobic/ racial hate crimes. Of those racial hate crimes reported, 818 or 20 % were identified as Afrophobic, meaning that Afro-Swedes are among the most vulnerable groups of racial hate crimes in Sweden. There were 161 reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes, 272 reports of Islamophobic hate crimes and 150 Anti-Roma hate crimes in 2010. Unlawful threats / harassment was the most common xenophobic / racist hate crime (40 percent) in 2010.

About 97% of all victims of xenophobic/racist hate crimes belong to minority groups. The absolute majority of perpetrators of xenophobic/racist hate crimes belong to the majority group (77 %). Only 20% of the perpetrators were other minority groups. Xenophobic/ racist hate crimes (4 %) against the majority group, or against people with a Swedish background were the lowest in numbers.The National Council on Crime Prevention reported in 2010 that the most common forms of xenophobic or racist motivated hate crimes in 2010 are violent crimes, unlawful discrimination, hate speech, damage to property such as vandalism/graffiti, unlawful threats, harassment and defamation targeted at individuals and groups.

Source: The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, http://www.bra.se/extra/news/?module_instance=3&id=310 assessed 10 July 2010.

Numbers of cases

Official or estimates

Exemplary cases

Groups affected/interested

Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people, National minorities

Type (R/D)

Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia

Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas

Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism

External Url

www.bra.se

Situation(s)

locally-based violent groups of Nazis are sprouting up in more places around Sweden

Hate crimes with racist, anti-Semitic or Islamophobic motives were identified in 2813 cases in 2007

Death threats against Muslims- two men and one woman have received the death threats

Police warns immigrants of becoming victims of violence in southern Sweden

Afrophobic and Islamophobic physical violence against a Somali woman and her children

Report shows that nearly 5,800 hate crime cases were reported to the police in 2010

Library

Hate crime statistics in Sweden 2007

Hate crime statistics in Sweden 2008

Hate crime statistics in Sweden 2009

Hate crimes 2010 in Sweden

Thematic Study on Racist and related hate crimes in the EU - The case of Sweden

28/01/2013 - 01:37