The prosecution of bias crime in the Netherlands and the problem of net-widening: fundamental limits to criminal liability
Crimes that are committed with bias motives are categorised as ‘hate’ or bias crimes and are punished more severely than nonbias crimes. However, bias crime laws are often applied to offences where there is no clear evidence of a bias motive. Based on the results of 318 case studies into bias crime...
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Crime, law and social change
Year: 2012, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-74 |
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