Criminal law dealing with hate crimes : functional comparative law, Germany vs. USA

Shavers, Christine Marie 1981- (Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9783653036411
ISBN: 3653036410
ISBN: 9783631642207
ISBN: 3631642202
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Methodical introduction -- Preparatory country report -- Hate crime in the United States of America -- Hate crime in Germany.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.