Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics
2011/12 Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics Quarterly updates
Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics 2004/05 to 2010/11
Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics Archive
Caution: While crimes included within the police recorded crime statistics for Northern Ireland are individually checked for compliance with the Home Office Counting Rules by the PSNI’s Central Statistics Unit, the identification of a domestic abuse or hate motivation is derived from a motivation ‘tick box’ on the system used by PSNI to record crime. The motivation is identified and completed by a police officer or member of police staff for each such reported incident or crime. The correct application of a domestic abuse or hate motivation for all such incident/crimes is not quality assured by the PSNI’s Central Statistics Unit, but quarterly audits and data quality checks are conducted in an attempt to ensure that any under or over-recording is corrected.
Domestic abuse and hate motivated incidents cover all such occurrences, whether a crime has been committed or not. Domestic abuse and hate motivated crimes are included within the incident figures. Please note that more than one crime may be recorded in a single incident.
A user guide to police recorded crime statistics in Northern Ireland is also available, which provides background information on various aspects of crime recording including:
• Definitions relating to crimes, incidents and detections, including a description of the crime types included within the crime, domestic abuse and hate motivation bulletins
• Recording practices, including PSNI data collection, quality and audit processes
• Data timeliness and availability
• The recording of domestic abuse and hate motivated incidents and crimes
• The geographic areas for which crime, domestic abuse and hate motivated incidents and crimes are available (statistics for geographies other than policing area and policing district can be accessed through the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information System (NINIS)
Internet Site)
Recorded crime user guide (PDF, 406.0 KB) (reviewed December 2011)
Domestic abuse definition (PDF, 16.7 KB)
Hate motivation definitions (PDF, 21.6 KB)
Comments and feedback from users have been compiled and are available through the link below, together with the response and any action required.
2011/12 Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics Quarterly updates
Domestic Abuse Quarterly Update to September 2011 - bulletin (PDF, 127.4 KB)
The hate motivation quarterly updates below cover incidents and crimes with a racist, homophobic or sectarian motivation. Incidents and crimes with a faith/religion, disability or transphobic motivation are updated on an annual basis.
Hate Motivations Quarterly Update to September 2011 - bulletin (PDF, 133.2 KB)
Publication schedule for quarterly updates (PDF, 16.5 KB).
Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics 2004/05 to 2010/11
On 28th July 2011 PSNI published a bulletin providing a comprehensive series of domestic abuse incidents and crimes for each financial year from 2004/05 to 2010/11 and a similar bulletin for hate motivated incidents and crimes, allowing the user to monitor long term trends from the start of each data series. The figures in the bulletins are based on crime classifications which have been realigned to match those used by the Home Office for England and Wales. These have been in use within PSNI since 1st April 2011. While there have been small changes at the level of individual classifications, overall incident and crime figures at a Northern Ireland level, as well as by policing district and policing area, do not differ from totals previously published. All previously published bulletins will remain available in the Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Archive.
Trends in Domestic Abuse Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2004/05 to 2010/11
Trends in Hate Motivated Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2004/05 to 2010/11
Spreadsheets to accompany the bulletin Trends in Hate Motivated Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2004/05 to 2010/11:
Racist Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2004/05 to 2010/11
Homophobic Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2004/05 to 2010/11
Sectarian Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2005/06 to 2010/11
Faith/Religion Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2005/06 to 2010/11
Disability Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2005/06 to 2010/11
Transphobic Incidents and Crimes in Northern Ireland 2006/07 to 2010/11
Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Statistics Archive
Visit the Domestic Abuse and Hate Motivation Archive to view statistics on Domestic and Hate Motivations prior to 2011/12
