HATE CRIMES – ESSENCE, LEGAL REGULATION AND INSTITUTUIONAL FRAMEWORK IN BULGARIA Cover Image

ПРЕСТЪПЛЕНИЯТА ОТ ОМРАЗА.– СЪЩНОСТ, ПРАВНА УРЕДБА И ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЕН КОНТЕКСТ В БЪЛГАРИЯ
HATE CRIMES – ESSENCE, LEGAL REGULATION AND INSTITUTUIONAL FRAMEWORK IN BULGARIA

Author(s): Lyuba D. Spasova
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: hate crime; legal regulation; institutional context

Summary/Abstract: Due to their specificity of acts with message and their strong distal and radicalizing effect, hate crimes erode the social and democratic foundations of society by which pose a serious threat to societal order. Part of a research aiming to identify mechanisms for normalization of socially induced hatred, the article analyzes the nature and specificities of hate crimes and the existing conditions for their limitation and prevention - the relevant legal and institutional framework in Bulgaria. The results reveal that the gravity of the problem is not reflected in the legal framework, as there are a number of problems, incompleteness and ambiguity in the relevant legal norms. Another obstacle to the regulation of hate crimes are the institutional problems - both structural and socially induced.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-47
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian
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