Gender may be the biggest cause of hate crime against women, new data shows

Gender may have been the motivation for over half the hate crimes reported by women in 2018, a new data analysis has revealed.

Despite the prevalence of this category of hate crime, crimes motivated by gender are “currently not recorded” or acted on as hate crimes by most police forces, per The Fawcett Society, a British gender equality organisation. 

Figures from the Crime Survey of England and Wales show that there were 67,000 reports of hate crime “based on gender” last year — of which 57,000 were “targeted at women.” Respondents to the survey were asked “whether the incident was motivated by the offender’s attitude towards their sex”. Read more…

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