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Crime: Racial Violence

Answer

The available information relates to offences of racially or religiously aggravated offences.The statistics requested cannot be provided in the form requested since it is not possible to track individual offences to conclusion and therefore convictions cannot be directly related to the offences recorded. The recorded offences data given in table 1 are based on the number of crimes reported to and recorded by the police and are on a financial year basis. The convictions data in table 2 are based on the number of offenders convicted and are on a calendar year basis. Convictions figures are counts of offenders classified by their principal offence.

Table 1: Racially or religiously aggravated offences of violence recorded by the police in Durham
Number of offences
	Racially or religiously aggravated offences of:
	Less serious wounding	Assault without injury¹	Harassment
2000-01	5	4	34
2001-02	4	12	61
2002-03²	3	8	69
2003-04	14	12	107
2004-05	10	10	125
2005-06	24	13	196
2006-07	19	14	243
¹ Includes some assaults with minor injury prior to 2002-03.
² The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002 and figures before and after that date are not directly comparable.

Table 2: Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for racially or religiously aggravated offences, Durham police force area, 1997-2006¹,²
	Racially or religiously aggravated offences of:
	Less serious wounding	Common assault	Harassment
1997	—	—	—
1998	—	—	—
1999	—	—	6
2000	3	2	12
2001	5	3	12
2002	1	4	14
2003	—	1	27
2004	3	5	24
2005	4	7	36
2006	—	2	46
¹ These data are provided on the principal offence basis.
² Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

470 c265-6W; 172765

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Crime Racial violence County Durham

Link

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