Fear of Racially Motivated Crime

The British Crime Survey (2000) http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs1.html revealed that the following were fairly or very worried about racially motivated assaults:

• 60% of Asian respondents

• 51% of black respondents; and

• 12% of white respondents

women were particularly concerned. About 4 in 10 Asian women and a third of Black women were ‘very’ very worried about racial attacks. 

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