The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

In this report:

• Overview & Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• The Nature and Magnitude of the Problem
• Escalating Hate Violence Against Immigrants
• White Supremacist Groups Growing
• Exploiting the Internet to Promote Hatred
• Hate Knows No Borders
• The Human Face of Hate Crimes
• Pending Federal Legislation
• Recommendations
• Selected Resources on Hate Crime Response and Counteraction
• Selected Resources on Hate Groups and Extremism
• Acknowledgements

Appendices

• State Hate Crime Statutory Provisions
• Comparison of FBI Hate Crimes Statistics
• Offenders' Reported Motivations
• State by State Incident Report Chart
• State by State Chart of Participating Agencies
• Big 50 Cities Reporting Chart

Hate Crimes Against Juveniles

There is little published information about juvenile hate crime offenders. The FBI's annual Hate Crime Statistics Act report does not provide specific information about either juvenile hate crime offenders or victims. However, it does document that schools and colleges were the third most frequent locations for hate crimes in 2007 — as they have been in every year since 2000.

In addition, according to the annual U.S. Department of Justice/Department of Education report Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007, 11 percent of students ages 12-18 reported that someone at school had used hate-related words against them, and more than one-third (38 percent) reported seeing hate-related graffiti at school in 2005.⁶³

An October 2001 report by the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics provided disturbing information about the too-frequent involvement of juveniles in hate crimes. Analyzing nearly 3,000 of the 24,000 hate crimes to the FBI from 1997 to 1999, the report found that a disproportionately high percentage of both the victims and the perpetrators of hate violence were young people under 18 years of age:

• Thirty-three percent of all known hate crime offenders were under 18; those under 18 constituted 31 percent of all violent crime offenders and 46 percent of the property offenders.
• Another 29 percent of all hate crime offenders were 18-24.
• Thirty percent of all victims of bias-motivated aggravated assaults and 34 percent of the victims of simple assault were under 18.⁶⁴

Next Section: Pending Federal Legislation

63. U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics and U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Indicators of School Crimes and Safety: 2007," (pdf) December 2007.

64. U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Hate Crimes Reported in NIBRS, 1997-99," September 2001.