§ Lord Dholakiaasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have undertaken victim satisfaction surveys of victims of racist crimes; and, if so, whether they will publish the results of the surveys. [HL2386]
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§ Lord RookerThe British Crime Survey collects information on crimes committed against individuals and their property; it also asks victims whether they believed the incident was racially motivated, and so can provide trends for racially motivated offences.
A report was published in 2001, presenting findings from the 2000 British Crime Survey, covering within it both the extent and nature of racially motivated crimes.
The most recent information on victim satisfaction for victims of racist crimes was published in Clancy, A., Hough, M., Aust, R., & Kershaw, C. (2001) Crime, Policing and Justice: the experiences of ethnic minorities. Findings from the 2000 British Crime Survey, Home Office Research Study 223. Table 4.2 in this report contains results by ethnicity on satisfaction with police handling of incidents for victims reporting household, personal and racial crimes. This has been deposited in the Library.
The 2001 and 2002 British Crime Surveys continue to monitor attitudes of ethnic minority groups and racially motivated crimes. A booster sample of 3.000 interviews is carried out amongst the non-white population, in addition to the 37,000 core interviews carried out each year.