Hate crimes. Incidence of the COVID pandemic on hate crimes in Spain

A hate crime is any criminal act in which the offender is motivated, in whole or in part, by social prejudice against a particular group. Threatening contextual conditions that are adverse, such as COVID-19 today, can foster prejudice and discrimination towards other people who are part of minorities or disadvantaged groups. The objective of this work is to analyze the evolution of hate crime from 2014 to the present in the field of changes that occurred and seeks, through comparative and statistical study, to see the evolution of the crime and crime rate specifically in crimes of hate. Documentation published between 2014-2021 was compiled using the Scielo, Dialnet, and Redalyc databases. It is concluded that hate crimes during the 2014-2020 period have had an upward trend, with the exception of 2020, whose decline may be influenced by Covid-19 that merited confinement.