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| | Hate Crimes Reporting |
 | | Hate crimes are not only crimes against the targeted victim, but also against a particular group as a whole. |
 | | A hate crime is a crime in which the perpetrator's conduct is motivated, in whole or in part, by hatred, bias, or prejudice, based upon the actual or perceived race, colour, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation of another individual or group. |
 | | Victims of homophobic/transphobic crime do not have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual; they just have to be perceived as gay, lesbian or transsexual and/or the crime to be perceived as containing or being influenced by homophobia/transphobia. |
| www.birmingham.gov.uk /hatecrime.bcc (1193 words) |
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