Criminal Law Dealing with Hate Crimes

Functional Comparative Law- Germany vs. USA

von Christine Marie Shavers

398 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study aims at providing a contribution to the current issue of hate crime. It analyzes the possibilities which are served by the German and the US American law to penalize bias-motivated crimes, while considering the historical and social background of both societies. It is questioned which legal goods are harmed by the committal of hate crime and whether the German penal law is suitable to address the wrong of hate crime and whether it is capable of properly punishing this sort of crime in respect to the blameworthiness of the offender. By applying the functional method of law comparison, understandings regarding the handlings of hate crimes in the USA and in Germany are exploited and, as a result, possible solutions for weaknesses of the prevailing law are offered.

• Reihe: Schriften zum Strafrecht und Strafprozeßrecht
• ISBN: 9783631642207
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2014
• Genre: Recht/Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Carsten Momsen