Summary
"This report describes the findings from this preliminary study into the needs of victims of hate
crimes in Canada. The background section will describe the legal context for hate crimes in
Canada and the two federal initiatives - A Canada for All: Canada’s Action Plan Against Racism
and the Victims of Crime Initiative - in order to situate this report. The following section
summarizes available statistics on victims of hate crimes, and primarily, North American
literature. In the next section, there is a summary of services for victims of hate crimes provided
by the jurisdictions. This is followed by a discussion informed by the information collected in the
report, as well as the authors’ meetings with the Ontario Community Working Group on Hate
Crimes. This Working Group had been tasked with identifying potential barriers to the delivery
of programs and services that help victims of hate crimes (a list of its members is found in
Appendix A). Suggestions for next steps are included in the discussion section."--Page 7.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Definition -- 2.2. Canadian legislation -- 2.3. United States legislation -- 2.4. An Anti-Racism Action Plan for Canada -- 2.5. The Victims of Crime Initiative -- 3. Review of research and data -- 3.1. Available data -- 3.2. Challenges to data collection -- 3.3. Alternative data collection methods -- 3.4. Needs of victims of hate crimes -- 3.4.1. Research from Canada -- 3.4.2. Research from the United States -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. Services in the jurisdictions -- 4.1. Summary of responses -- 4.1.1. Services for victims of hate crimes -- 4.1.2. Barriers to services -- 4.1.3. Special needs -- 5. Discussion and summary -- 5.1. Victims of hate crimes : their needs -- 5.2. Further research -- 5.3. Further services, training and education -- 5.4. Summary --
Appendix A.
Members of the Ontario Hate Crimes Community Working Group --
Appendix B.
Members of the Federal Provincial Territorial Working Group
on Victims of Crime --
Appendix C.
Criminal Code provisions on victim impact statements.