Why are levels of hate crime higher in France than in other EU member states?
• How is the EU tackling crime? Key concepts: Place Space Scale Interdependence Physical and human processes How can radar graphs be used to compare crime levels in selected EU countries? Radar graphs are a type of thematic graph used to show several different bits of data on one graph. Rather than showing actual numerical data, these often show variation from a mean or average value. In this case, 8-sided radar graphs are used to show information for 8 different EU crime and justice indicators. The graphs are from The European Safety Observatory’s document The burden of crime in the EU. Students are provided with graphs from 5 EU countries: The UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Hate crime is defined as ‘ideologically motivated personal violence’, i.e. incidents where people have fallen victim to violent crime as a result of their race, colour, religious belief or sexual orientation. The average scores for other EU member states represent the inner octagon, meaning that any variati
