Recognising hate crime
Hate Crime is when you, or someone else, perceives that you are being targeted with violent / abusive or criminal behaviour, because of your race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity – these are called "protected characteristics”.
You can experience hate crime based on one or more of these protected characteristics. Hate crime can be a one off incident, repeated incidents or ongoing.
- race or perceived race
- religion or perceived religion
- sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation
- disability or perceived disability
- transgender identity or perceived transgender identity.
A hate crime or incident can include:
- verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, harassment, assault and bullying
- hoax calls, abusive phone or text messages, hate mail
- online harassment or abuse via social media, dating apps or email
- written abuse, such as graffiti, displaying or circulating discriminatory literature or posters
- physical attacks such as hitting, punching, pushing, spitting
- damage to property such as graffiti or arson
- messages calling for violence against a specific person or group
- microaggressions (brief, everyday interactions that send derogatory messages about certain minoritised groups in society)
- a person making malicious complaints about you, for example to your housing provider, local council, the police, or place of study or work.
Behaviours and standards
The University expects all members of the University community to treat each other with respect, courtesy and consideration at all times. If you have experienced unacceptable behaviour and let us know about this, we can help to address this and take the most appropriate course of action (with your consent and agreement).
This information can also be viewed on the Cardiff University Student Intranet