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Show Figure 40 Aggravated Assault 1983-1997" j.s. 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 *Aggravated assault is an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. Attempts are included since it is not necessary that an injury result when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could and probably would result in serious personal injury if the crime were successfully completed 70 Hate Crime The Uniform Crime Reports defines a hate crime, or bias crime, as a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.71 In 1997, 8,049 hate crime incidents were reported to the FBI. Of the reported 8,049 reported incidents, 4,610 were motivated by racial bias (59.81 percent); 1,385 by religious bias (15.04 percent); 1,102 by sexual-orientation bias (13.94 percent); 836 by ethnicity/national origin bias (10.98 percent); 12 by disability bias (0.12 percent); and 4 by multiple biases (0.10 percent). The 8,049 incidents involved 9,861 separate offenses, 10,255 victims, and 8,474 known offenders.72 Utah law enforcement agencies reported 49 incidents in 1997.73 Table 94. Number of Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders, U.S. 1997 Offenses Victims* Known Offenders** Murder Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault ________ Total *May refer to a person, business, institution, or society as a whole. **Does not imply that the identity of the suspect is known, but only that an attribute of the suspect is identified which distinguishes him/her from an unknown offender. ***Some offenders may be responsible for more than one offense and are, therefore, counted more than once in this table. Source: The Uniform Crime Reports. [Online] Available http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/Cius_97/97crime/97crime....pdf. 70 Ibid., p. 33. 71 Ibid., p. 59. 72 Ibid., p. 61-62. 73 Ibid., p. 63. 114 |
