Juveniles are more likely than adults to experience a hate crime.
- According to police reports for 1997-1999, juveniles made up nearly a quarter (23%) of all individual hate crime victims, bot only 11% of victims of other kinds of crime.
CCRC data analysis using NIBRS 1997, 1998, 1999.
Most juvenile victims of hate crimes are male teens.
- Eighty-one percent of the juvenile victims of hate crimes were ages 12 to 17.
- Boys made up two-thirds (69%) of all juvenile hate crime victims, compared to only 53% of the victims of crime victimizations in general.
CCRC data analysis using NIBRS 1997, 1998, 1999.
Hate crimes against juveniles involve more serious violence than those against adults.
- Sixty-three percent of hate crimes against juveniles involved violent assaults (simple and aggravated assault), compared to 39% of hate crimes against adults.
CCRC data analysis using NIBRS 1997, 1998, 1999.
Most hate crimes against juveniles reflect racial and ethnic biases.
- For 1997 through 1999, 38% of hate crimes against juveniles had anti-Black motivations and 22% had anti-White motivations.
- A further 13% were motivated by anti-Hispanic biases.
CCRC data analysis using NIBRS 1997, 1998, 1999.
A disproportionate number of hate crimes against juveniles occur at school.
- A fifth (21%) of hate crimes against juveniles occur at school, while only one tenth (10%) of all other types of crime against juveniles occur there.
CCRC data analysis using NIBRS 1997, 1998, 1999.
Many of the perpetrators of hate crimes against juveniles are themselves juveniles and known to the victim.
- Sixty-four percent of offenders committing hate crimes against juveniles are themselves under 18 years of age.
- A majority (56%) of offenders who commit violent hate crimes against a juvenile are known to their victim, compared to only 39% of those who commit a hate crime against an adult.
CCRC data analysis using NIBRS 1997, 1998, 1999.
