The British Crime Survey questioned a large, nationally representative sample of adults in England and Wales in order to estimate the extent of crimes against individuals and their households, including crimes not reported to the police. The survey also covered a wide range of other crime-related topics. The report presents information in three main areas: (1) the distribution of criminal victimization across different ethnic groups, including trends in victimization and patterns of reporting to the police; (2) the proportion of criminal incidents and threats thought to have been racially motivated, and the trend between the 1994 and 1996 surveys; why racial motivation was suspected by victims, what victims knew about the offenders involved, and the trend in reporting racially motivated incidents to the police; comparisons between the number of incidents reported to the police as estimated by the Survey and the number of racially motivated incidents recorded by the police; experience of low-level racial harassment; and comparisons with a recent survey of ethnic minorities in Britain; and (3) fear of crime among different ethnic groups. Notes, figures, tables, appendixes, references