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Table 2
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported hate crimes. The information is grouped by Most serious violation (appearing as row headers), Race/ ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other, Unknown and Total, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Most serious violation	Race/ ethnicity	Religion	Sexual orientation	Other^Note 1	Unknown	Total
Most serious violation	percent
Non-violent	68	87	33	65	63	69
Mischief in relation to religious property^Note 2	0	20	0	0	0	6
Other mischief	57	52	26	51	33	51
Public incitement of hatred^Note 2	2	1	2	6	21	3
Other non-violent offences^Note 3	9	13	5	8	8	10
Violent	32	13	67	35	38	31
Total assault	19	4	38	8	17	17
Common assault (Level 1)	13	3	22	4	4	10
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm Level 2)	6	1	14	4	4	6
Aggravated assault (Level 3)	0^s	0	1	0	0	0^s
Other assault	0^s	0^s	1	0	8	1
Uttering threats	8	4	12	12	17	8
Criminal harassment	3	2	10	12	0	4
Other violent offences^Note 4	2	2	7	4	4	3
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100
0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded Note 1. Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex and other similar factors (e.g. occupation or political beliefs). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. These offences are by definition hate crimes. Public incitement of hatred includes one incident of advocating genocide in 2012.The other listed offences are general Criminal Code offences, such as assault, uttering threats, etc., motivated by hate. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Other non-violent offences include crimes against property or other non-violent criminal violations. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Other violent offences include other crimes against persons involving violence or threat of violence such as robbery or harassing telephone calls. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Information in this table regarding the nature of offence reflects data reported by police services covering 86% of the population of Canada. It does not include police services reporting to the UCR2.2 Supplemental Survey in Toronto, Calgary, Québec and Saint John. Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30