Table 8

Incidents
Victim Type
by Bias Motivation, 2008

Bias motivation	Total incidents	Victim type
Bias motivation	Total incidents	Individual	Business/ financial institution	Government	Religious organization	Society/ public¹	Other/ unknown/ multiple
Total	7,783	6,017	435	315	231	10	775
Single-Bias Incidents	7,780	6,014	435	315	231	10	775
Race	3,992	3,256	213	181	16	7	319
Religion	1,519	695	146	104	210	0	364
Sexual Orientation	1,297	1,203	32	15	1	1	45
Ethnicity/National Origin	894	790	40	15	4	1	44
Disability	78	70	4	0	0	1	3
Multiple-Bias Incidents²	3	3	0	0	0	0	0

¹ The victim type society/public is collected only in the NIBRS. See Methodology.
² 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.