Crimes where victim flagged as having disability 2017 to 2022
Date of request: 1 December 2022
Reference: 1357-22
Request
Please can you provide figures for the number of crimes where the victim was flagged as having a disability, broken down by crime type, for the following years:
- 2021/22
- 2020/21
- 2019/20
- 2018/19
- 2017/18
Response
Within our crime recording system, we do not have a data field to capture disability for victims of crimes in general. The information we are able to retrieve in relation to your question relates only to hate crimes with a recorded hate type of disability.
Please see below a table showing a count of hate crimes with a hate type of disability, broken down by crime group and crime description, for each financial year specified:
| 2017/2018 | 2018/2019 | 2019/2020 | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 | Sum: | |||
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Arson not endangering life | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Criminal Damage to a Vehicle Endangering Life | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Other Criminal Damage, Other – valued under £5000 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 30 | |
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Other Criminal Damage to a Building Other than a Dwelling – valued under £5000 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Other Criminal Damage to a Dwelling – valued under £5000 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 20 | |
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Other Criminal Damage to a Vehicle – valued under £5000 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 48 | |
| Arson and Criminal Damage | Racially or Religiously Aggravated Criminal Damage | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Burglary | Burglary – Residential | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society | Ill treatment or neglect of a person lacking capacity by anyone responsible for that persons care | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society | Intimidating or intending to intimidate a witness | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society | Take or to make indecent photographs or pseudo- photographs, of children | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society | Threats to destroy or damage property | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Miscellaneous Crimes Against Society | Using data for unauthorised purpose; disclosing data to unauthorised person etc. – Data Protection Act | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Public Order Offences | Affray | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Public Order Offences | Causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress | 95 | 102 | 105 | 92 | 117 | 511 | |
| Public Order Offences | Fear or provocation of violence | 5 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 36 | |
| Public Order Offences | Racially or religiously aggravated fear or provocation of violence | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Public Order Offences | Racially or religiously aggravated harassment or alarm or distress | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
| Public Order Offences | Racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress | 6 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 28 | |
| Public Order Offences | Use threatening / abusive words / behaviour or disorderly behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress (recordable) | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | |
| Public Order Offences | Violent disorder | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Robbery | Robbery – Personal Property | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | |
| Sexual Offences | Causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity – Female child – no penetration – Offender under 18 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sexual Offences | Exposure | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Sexual Offences | Rape a woman 16 years of age or over – SOA 2003 (recordable) | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sexual Offences | Rape of a male aged 16 or over – multiple undefined offenders | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sexual Offences | Sexual assault on a female | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sexual Offences | Sexual assault on a male | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Sexual Offences | Trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Theft | Blackmail | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Theft | Theft from shops and stalls | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Theft | Theft from the person of another | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Theft | Theft if not classified elsewhere | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 23 | |
| Theft | Theft in a dwelling other than from automatic machine or meter | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Vehicle Offences | Theft from a motor vehicle | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Vehicle Offences | Theft of a motor vehicle | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Assault occasioning actual bodily harm | 12 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 24 | 90 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Breach of conditions of injunction against harassment | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Care provider breach duty of care resulting in ill-treatment / neglect of individual | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Care worker ill-treat / wilfully neglect an individual | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Common assault and battery | 32 | 41 | 30 | 36 | 35 | 174 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Cruelty to and neglect of children | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Engage in Controlling/Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate Family Relationship | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Violence Against The Person | False imprisonment | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Harassment | 43 | 38 | 52 | 39 | 61 | 233 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Harassment etc. of a person in his home | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Violence Against The Person | Kidnapping | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Violence Against The Person | Malicious Wounding: wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Violence Against The Person | Pursue course of conduct in breach of Sec 1 (1) which amounts to stalking | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Violence Against The Person | Putting people in fear of violence | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Racially or Religiously Aggravated assault or assault occasioning actual bodily harm | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Racially or Religiously aggravated common assault or beating | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Racially or religiously aggravated Harassment or Stalking without violence | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Violence Against The Person | Require person to perform forced or compulsory labour | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Sending letters etc with intent to cause distress or anxiety (Mal Comms) | 32 | 21 | 31 | 37 | 54 | 175 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Stalking involving fear of violence | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Stalking involving serious alarm/distress | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Violence Against The Person | Threats to kill | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Use of noxious substances or things to cause harm and intimidate | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Violence Against The Person | Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm | 1 | 1 | |||||
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Incident Report – Anti Social Behaviour (Case managed) | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Sum: | 278 | 291 | 306 | 282 | 373 | 1530 |