Anti-Jewish attacks were the most common form of anti-religious group hate crimes in the United States in 2023, with 1,832 cases. Anti-Islamic hate crimes were the second most common anti-religious hate crimes in that year, with 236 incidents.

In 2022/23 there were 3,866 religious hate crimes committed against Muslims in England and Wales, which was the most of any religion in that year. Jewish hate crime was the second most-common type of hate crime, at 3,282 recorded hate crimes.

Coercion/threat made up the highest number of recorded criminal offenses with an extremist background based on religious ideology in Germany. In total, there were 57 of these recorded in 2023. Number of Islamists and Salafists There have been various terror attacks in Germany during the second half of the twentieth century. Although often associated with, terrorism is not connected exclusively to religious ideology. Such attacks can also be part of politically motivated crime. However, the same as in other countries in Western Europe, religiously fueled terrorism is still a concern for German authorities, which is the reason for the number of Islamists and Salafists living in Germany being monitored. Based on recent figures, however, both the number of Islamists on German soil (though this was recorded among non-violent groups), as well as the number of Salafists is beginning to slowly decrease. Terror attacks in Europe Based on a recent survey, the German population considers terrorist attacks a real possibility for the country. Of terror attacks that happened in Europe in 2021, France and Germany were the primary targets.

In 2023, there were 2,069 victims of anti-Jewish hate crimes in the United States, making it the type of anti-religious hate crime with the most victims in that year. Anti-Islamic hate crime victims were the second most common, with 283 victims in 2023.

Approximately 39,068 prisoners in England and Wales identified as being Christian in 2024, the most of any religious faith among prisoners. A further 27,122 identified as having no religion, while 15,909 identified as Muslims.

Police-reported hate crime, by type of motivation (race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, language, disability, sex, age), selected regions and Canada (selected police services), 2014 to 2023.

In response to a growing concern about hate crimes, the United States Congress enacted the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990. The Act requires the attorney general to establish guidelines and collect, as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, data "about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, including where appropriate the crimes of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation, arson, and destruction, damage or vandalism of property." Hate crime data collection was required by the Act to begin in calendar year 1990 and to continue for four successive years. In September 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act amended the Hate Crime Statistics Act to add disabilities, both physical and mental, as factors that could be considered a basis for hate crimes. Although the Act originally mandated data collection for five years, the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996 amended the collection duration "for each calendar year," making hate crime statistics a permanent addition to the UCR program. As with the other UCR data, law enforcement agencies contribute reports either directly or through their state reporting programs. Information contained in the data includes number of victims and offenders involved in each hate crime incident, type of victims, bias motivation, offense type, and location type.

In Canada in 2023, the religious community most frequently affected by religious hate crimes was the Jewish community, which accounted for 900 recorded religious hate crimes. The second most affected community was the Muslim one.By 2023, there were a total of 4,777 hate crimes reported to the police, of which 1,284 were religious hate crimes.

An annual publication in which the FBI provides data on the number of incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against the victim as perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, disability, and gender identity.

Investigator(s): Federal Bureau of Investigation Since 1930, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has compiled the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) to serve as periodic nationwide assessments of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. With the 1977 data, the title was expanded to Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data. Each year, participating law enforcement agencies contribute reports to the FBI either directly or through their state reporting programs. ICPSR archives the UCR data as five separate components: (1) summary data, (2) county-level data, (3) incident-level data (National Incident-Based Reporting System [NIBRS]), (4) hate crime data, and (5) various, mostly nonrecurring, data collections. Summary data are reported in four types of files: (a) Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, (b) Property Stolen and Recovered, (c) Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), and (d) Police Employee (LEOKA) Data (Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Assaulted). The county-level data provide counts of arrests and offenses aggregated to the county level. County populations are also reported. In the late 1970s, new ways to look at crime were studied. The UCR program was subsequently expanded to capture incident-level data with the implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting System. The NIBRS data focus on various aspects of a crime incident. The gathering of hate crime data by the UCR program was begun in 1990. Hate crimes are defined as crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. In September 1994, disabilities, both physical and mental, were added to the list. The fifth component of ICPSR's UCR holdings is comprised of various collections, many of which are nonrecurring and prepared by individual researchers. These collections go beyond the scope of the standard UCR collections provided by the FBI, either by including data for a range of years or by focusing on other aspects of analysis. NACJD has produced resource guides on UCR and on NIBRS data.

There were 10,484 religious hate crimes reported by the police in England and Wales in the 2023/24 reporting year, which was more than in any other reporting year during this provided time period.

The Hate Crime Statistics dataset provides annual statistics on the number of incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported crimes that are motivated in whole, or in part, by an offender’s bias against the victim’s perceived race, gender, gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. Hate crime data is captured by indicating the element of bias present in offenses already being reported to the UCR Program.

All law enforcement agencies, whether they submit Summary Reporting System (SRS) or National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) reports, can contribute hate crime data to the UCR Program using forms specified to collect such information.

Please see the UCR resources provided by the FBI for for more information on hate crime. Download this dataset to see totals for hate crimes across the country from 1991–2014.

The Tempe Police Department prides itself in its continued efforts to reduce harm within the community and is providing this dataset on hate crime incidents that occur in Tempe.The Tempe Police Department documents the type of bias that motivated a hate crime according to those categories established by the FBI. These include crimes motivated by biases based on race and ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender and gender identity.The Bias Type categories provided in the data come from the Bias Motivation Categories as defined in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) manual, version 2020.1 dated 4/15/2021. The FBI NIBRS manual can be found at https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/ucr/ucr-2019-1-nibrs-user-manua-093020.pdf with the Bias Motivation Categories found on pages 78-79.Although data is updated monthly, there is a delay by one month to allow for data validation and submission.Information about Tempe Police Department's collection and reporting process for possible hate crimes is included in https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a963e97ca3494bfc8cd66d593eebabaf.Additional InformationSource: Data are from the Law Enforcement Records Management System (RMS)Contact: Angelique BeltranContact E-Mail: angelique_beltran@tempe.govData Source Type: TabularPreparation Method: Data from the Law Enforcement Records Management System (RMS) are entered by the Tempe Police Department into a GIS mapping system, which automatically publishes to open data.Publish Frequency: MonthlyPublish Method: New data entries are automatically published to open data. Data Dictionary

In 2023, there were 405 incidents of anti-religion related hate crimes at America's churches, synagogues, temples and mosques. A further 607 incidents of anti-religion hate crimes took place in residences or homes.

This dataset contains the yearly statistics on the number of victims by offense types and by bias motivation. Major categories of offense types include crimes against persons, crimes against property and crimes against society. Each offense type is further categorized by type of crime such as murder, rape, trafficking, robbery etc. Major categories of bias motivations include Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Disability, Gender and Gender Identity.

Rationality and religion

In 2023, the FBI knew of 1,100 perpetrators of anti-Jewish hate crimes conducted in the United States that year. A further 203 perpetrators of anti-Islamic (Muslim) hate crimes were known in that year.

The start of 20 years of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys within New Zealand by Professor Philip Gendall, Department of Marketing, Massey University.A verbose rundown on topics follows.Attitudes towards religious behaviours. Topics: Personal estimation of

happiness; assessment of responsibility of the state regarding job

creation and income levelling; stronger punishment and the death

penalty as measures to combat crime; attitude to pre-marital sexual

intercourse and affairs; attitude to homosexuality and abortion;

judgement on role distribution in marriage and attitude to working

women; honesty in paying taxes and attitude to honesty of citizens with

the state; trust in institutions such as the Federal Parliament, business,

industry, authorities, churches, judiciary and schools.

Attitude to non-religious politicians and office-holders; influence on

voters as well as government through church leaders; judgement on the

power of churches and religious organisations; doubt or firm belief in

God; perceived nearness to God; development of personal belief in God;

belief in a life after death; belief in the devil, heaven, hell and miracles;

conviction regarding the Bible; fatalism; the meaning of life and

Christian interpretation of life; contact with the dead; religious ties at a

turning point in life; religious affiliation of father, mother and

spouse/partner; frequency of church attendance of father and of

mother; personal direction of belief and frequency of church

attendance in adolescence; frequency of prayer and participation in

religious activities.

Self-classification of personal religiousness; attitude to school prayer;

personal conscience, social rules or God’s laws as basis for deciding

between right and wrong; attitudes to prohibition of religious criticism

in literature and films; superstition; belief in lucky charms, fortune

tellers, wonder doctors, signs of the zodiac and horoscopes; conversion

of faith after crucial experience; idea of God; judgement on world and

people as good or bad.

Living together with partner; type and temporal extent of vocational

employment; private or public employer; professional independence

and number of employees; superior function and span of control;

number of colleagues; union membership; unemployment; party

inclination and behaviour at the polls; self-classification on a left-right

continuum; religious affiliation; religiousness; self-classification of social

class affiliation; residential status; training and employment of

spouse/partner as well as parents; size of household; household

income. Also encoded were: region; rural or urban area; city size; ethnic

identification.

In Spain, 2017 ranked as the year that registered the highest number of religion-related hate crimes, with a total of 103 recorded cases. In contrast, there were 42 filed hate crimes in 2014, which is the lowest result during the period under consideration. In 2023, 55 hate crimes motivated against religious practices or beliefs were filed in Spain.