Self-reported vulnerability to hate crime - Analysis from the Swedish Crime Survey 2006-2017 (Självrapporterad utsatthet för hatbrott - Analys utifrån Nationella trygghetsundersökningen 2006-2017) The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brot

Country

Sweden

Title

Self-reported vulnerability to hate crime - Analysis from the Swedish Crime Survey 2006-2017 (Självrapporterad utsatthet för hatbrott - Analys utifrån Nationella trygghetsundersökningen 2006-2017) The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
(Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå )

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Year

2018

Type of publication

Report

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

Public authority

Institution

Sweden, The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
(Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå )

Main Thematic Focus

Hate speech Incitement to hatred or violence

Target Population

Muslims Religious minorities

Key findings

The results of the report are mainly of a describing character. Analyses of underlying factors of the vulnerability to hate crimes are limited. The report shows that a certain increase of anti-religious hate crimes (do note that the religion is not specified) can be reported between the years 2011-2016 and the increase has predominantly affected men. The exposure to anti-religious hate crimes is clearly bigger among persons born abroad, and persons born in Sweden with at least one parent who is born abroad. There is also great differences in exposure based on income and civil status; single people and persons with lower income are more often exposed to anti-religious hate crimes.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

Survey: Quantative. The data of the report builds on the Swedish Crime Survey, which is is based on interviews with approximately 20,000 people aged 16-79 and is conducted on an annual basis by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention since 2006. The interviews are primarly conducted over telephone.

Sample details and representativeness

The investigation is based on a stratified randomised selection of around 20,000 persons aged 16-79, who are residing in Sweden. Most of the data collection is done by telephone interviews. The results are primarily present in categories of gender, age, Swedish or other ethnic background, level of education, income, type of family, type of housing and home district. To investigate how individual background factors affect the level of vulnerability, logistic regression analyses have been used. Such was however only possible to conduct on those who had been exposed to xenophobic hate crimes, and not homophobic or anti-religious, since they were too few.

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