Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (2019), Verfassungsschutzbericht 2018, Wien. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (2019), Report on the protecti

Country

Austria

Title

Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (2019), Verfassungsschutzbericht 2018, Wien. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (2019), Report on the protection of the constitution 2018, Vienna.

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Year

2019

Type of publication

Report

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

Public authority

Institution

Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism | Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung

Main Thematic Focus

Hate crime

Target Population

Muslims

Key findings

In 2018, the Austrian security authorities registered a total of 1,075 right-wing extremist, xenophobic/racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and unspecific or other criminal acts, in the course of which relevant offences were reported to the authorities. One criminal act may comprise several offences separately reported to the authorities. Compared to 2017 (1,063 offences), the number increased by 1.1 percent. 677 criminal acts, that is 63 percent, were successfully solved. In 2017, the rate of successfully solved cases amounted to 58.1 percent. In connection with the criminal offences mentioned, 1,622 offences were reported in Austria in 2018, which is 2.9 percent more than in 2017 (1,576 offences).

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

Quantitative: documentation of registered cases on extremist criminal acts, which were reported to the authorities.

Sample details and representativeness

N/A (no sample was drawn from the population)

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