The document contains information from 11,211 law enforcement agencies, representing nearly 223 million United States inhabitants, with definitions of categories and an explanation of data collection methodology. A section on Hate Crime Statistics, 1997, includes: (1) Narrative comments; (2) Number of incidents, offenses, victims and known offenders by bias motivation; (3) Location of incidents by bias motivation; (4) Number of offenses, victims and known offenders by offense; (5) Number of offenses; (6) Percent distribution of offenses by victim type; (7) Number of offenses by State; (8) Number of victims by bias motivation and offense type; (9) Percent distribution of bias motivation by victim type; and (10) Number of known offenders by race. Jurisdictional Hate Crime Statistics, 1997, includes: (1)Narrative comments; (2) Agency hate crime reporting by State; and (3) Number of incidents by bias motivation. Tables, notes, appendix