TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christine Marie Shavers
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653036411
TI  - Criminal Law Dealing with Hate Crimes
T2  - Functional Comparative Law- Germany vs. USA
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03641-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047608
N2  - 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.
KW  - Hate Crime, German Criminal Law, Strafrecht, Legal Good Doctrine, Harm Principle, Verbrechen
LA  - English
ER  -