Summary of Hate Crime Statistics, 2004
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
The following table lists the hate crime statistics for the United States during 2004, including the number of incidents, offenses, victims, and known offenders according to race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and more.
Number of incidents | Number of offenses | Number of victims | Number of known offenders | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Race | 4,042 | 4,863 | 5,119 | 4,173 |
Anti-white | 829 | 998 | 1,027 | 1,085 |
Anti-black | 2,731 | 3,281 | 3,475 | 2,694 |
Anti-American Indian/Alaska Native | 83 | 97 | 100 | 97 |
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander | 217 | 252 | 266 | 188 |
Anti-multi-racial group | 182 | 235 | 251 | 109 |
Religion | 1,374 | 1,480 | 1,586 | 604 |
Anti-Jewish | 954 | 1,003 | 1,076 | 330 |
Anti-Catholic | 57 | 57 | 68 | 37 |
Anti-Protestant | 38 | 43 | 48 | 28 |
Anti-Islamic | 156 | 193 | 201 | 124 |
Anti-other religious group | 128 | 140 | 147 | 68 |
Anti-multi-religious group | 35 | 37 | 39 | 14 |
Anti-atheism/agnosticism/etc. | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
Sexual orientation | 1,197 | 1,406 | 1,482 | 1,258 |
Anti-male homosexual | 738 | 855 | 902 | 832 |
Anti-female homosexual | 164 | 201 | 212 | 163 |
Anti-homosexual | 245 | 297 | 314 | 224 |
Anti-heterosexual | 33 | 35 | 36 | 22 |
Anti-bisexual | 17 | 18 | 18 | 17 |
Ethnicity/national origin | 972 | 1,201 | 1,254 | 1,047 |
Anti-Hispanic | 475 | 611 | 646 | 585 |
Anti-other ethnicity/national origin | 497 | 590 | 608 | 462 |
Disability | 57 | 71 | 73 | 54 |
Anti-physical | 23 | 23 | 24 | 16 |
Anti-mental | 34 | 48 | 49 | 38 |
Multiple-bias incidents1 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
Total | 7,649 | 9,035 | 9,528 | 7,145 |
1. A multiple-bias incident is a hate crime in which two or more offense types were committed as a result of two or more bias motivations.
Source: Crime in the United States, 2004, FBI, Uniform Crime Reports.
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