Table 1

Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2008

Bias motivation	Incidents	Offenses	Victims¹	Known offenders²
Total	7,783	9,168	9,691	6,927
Single-Bias Incidents	7,780	9,160	9,683	6,921
Race:	3,992	4,704	4,934	3,723
Anti-White	716	812	829	811
Anti-Black	2,876	3,413	3,596	2,596
Anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native	54	59	63	61
Anti-Asian/Pacific Islander	137	162	170	140
Anti-Multiple Races, Group	209	258	276	115
Religion:	1,519	1,606	1,732	632
Anti-Jewish	1,013	1,055	1,145	353
Anti-Catholic	75	75	89	35
Anti-Protestant	56	60	62	34
Anti-Islamic	105	123	130	85
Anti-Other Religion	191	212	222	90
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group	65	67	70	33
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.	14	14	14	2
Sexual Orientation:	1,297	1,617	1,706	1,460
Anti-Male Homosexual	776	948	981	921
Anti-Female Homosexual	154	194	198	156
Anti-Homosexual	307	415	466	336
Anti-Heterosexual	33	33	34	25
Anti-Bisexual	27	27	27	22
Ethnicity/National Origin:	894	1,148	1,226	1,034
Anti-Hispanic	561	735	792	711
Anti-Other Ethnicity/National Origin	333	413	434	323
Disability:	78	85	85	72
Anti-Physical	22	28	28	26
Anti-Mental	56	57	57	46
Multiple-Bias Incidents³	3	8	8	6

¹ The term victim may refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole.
² The term known offender does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect has been identified, which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender.
³ In a multiple-bias incident, two conditions must be met: (a) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (b) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases.