HATE CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY

There are some indications of movement in the direction of a small decline in the overall victimization rates for crimes in general The victimization rates for most of the specific crimes asked about in the survey appear to have declined very slightly since 2018, but most of the differences do not evidence a change when judged by standards of statistical probability. [...] 4 The potential hate crime victimization rate for the 2023 participants as a group from the 2018 survey municipalities is higher than the overall rate for 2023 survey respondents from other municipalities and there is no evident change in the victimization rate since 2018. [...] Women and men experienced no difference in the overall rate of potential hate crime and incident victimization in the 2023 wave of the survey. [...] A higher proportion of respondents with a disability from the 2018 municipalities in the 2023 wave of the survey were more likely to report having been a victim of a potential crime or incident in the previous 12 months compared with respondents with a disability in the 2018 wave of the survey. [...] The same is the case for potential hate crime and incident victimization—indicating increases between the two waves of the survey.