Questions › Chapter 5: The UK government, the law and your role
True or false: Causing someone harassment, alarm or distress because of their ethnic origin or religion is a crime in the UK.
- ATrueRight answer
- BFalse
Answer: True
This is known as racial crime and is a criminal offence in the UK.
From chapter 5 of the handbook, "The UK government, the law and your role", section "Respecting the law". Practice question 563 of 651, written in our own words.