Hate Crime

Hate crimes are any crimes that are targeted at a person because of a hostility or prejudice towards that person’s:

  • disability
  • race or ethnicity
  • religion or belief
  • sexual orientation
  • transgender identity
  • alternative subculture identity - for example "Goth" "Emo" "Punk"

Offences can be committed against a person or property. You can be a victim of hate crime even if the person committing the crime targets you by mistake, for example thinking that you are Muslim when you are in fact Christian.

A victim does not have to be a member of the group at which the hostility is targeted. In fact, anyone could be a victim of a hate crime.

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