European migration crisis and the concept of the hate crimes or bias motivated crimes in the Czech criminal law regulation

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Authors

FRYŠTÁK Marek

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference 12 Criminalistics and Forensic Expertology: science, studies, practice
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Faculty of Law

Citation
Field Law sciences
Keywords Europe; migration crisis; hate crimes; bias motivated crimes; hate speech; extremism; radicalism; Czech criminal law regulation
Description In the paper the author think about European migration crisis and about the rising antimigration mood in Europe. In this context author deal with the concept of hate crimes and its origin in the USA, difficulties of its definition, its pros and cons and the danger of its transference into the Czech criminal law regulation, which does not know  and does not use the concept of the hate crimes, but use the concept of bias motivated crimes. However, these concepts have different contents.
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