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Number of racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police by month, April 2013 to March 2018

This figure shows a gradual increase in the number of racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police over a 5 year period.  This rise is explained by several interrelated factors: i) improvements in crime recording by the police; ii) increasing willingness of victims to report hate crimes, and, iii) in some periods, a […]

Race and Religious Hate Speech – 2017 Terror Attacks

This chart shows race and religious hate speech posted globally on Twitter throughout 2017.  The chart represents both moderate and extreme hate speech, with original tweets and retweets combined.  Discernible spikes in hate speech are evident that coincide with key events during the year, notably the UK terror attacks in Westminster, Manchester, London Bridge and […]

Online Race and Religious Hate Speech – Brexit Vote

This chart shows online race and religious hate speech (both moderate and extreme) produced on Twitter around the Brexit vote, representing original tweets (i.e. excluding retweets) from the UK.  Hate speech spiked in the hours and days after the vote outcome, in line with the spike in offline hate crime.  Hate speech produced around the […]

Online Anti-Semitic Hate Speech

This chart shows anti-Semitic content posted on Twitter in the UK between October 2015 and October 2016.  In total, HateLab identified 9,008 original tweets as antagonistic, representing 0.7 per cent of the 1,232,744 original tweets in the UK dataset.  This is commensurate with the volume of antagonistic tweets related to Muslim identity following the Woolwich […]

Choropleth of Hate Crimes Recorded by the Police in Participating States in 2018

This world choropleth shows the number of police recorded hate crimes in 2018 (for 2019 data see here) across countries that report into the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).  Colours of countries indicate the frequency of hate crimes, with cooler shades of purple, green and blue indicating low levels, and warmer shades […]

Cartogram of Hate Crimes Recorded by Police in Participating States in 2018

This cartogram distorts the size of countries based on the volume of hate reported to police. It produces a very unusual view of the world through the lens of hate crime statistics, with the UK dominating the planet, with most of Europe, Asia and Russia squeezed into a fraction of their actual size.  But this is […]