Prevention and Fight Against Harvest and Revenge Motivated Crimes

Abstract

Hate crimes are a serious concern in the world and the objective of approaching and combating discriminatory motivated crimes is pursued at international level as well as at national level in many countries that have adopted specific and strategic actions and/or policies. “Hate crimes” is a generic term that refers to all those offences committed by the offender on the ground of discriminatory motivation. We want to draw the attention to the fact that hate crimes based on religious criteria (but not only) are a very sensitive matter and the evidence of this lies, for example, in the terrorist actions of certain Islamic groups that have detonated a bomb in the editorial of a magazine that had published a caricature of an Islamic prophet, in Paris on 7th of January 2015. We believe that the religious affiliations of every nation must be respected, but it is inconceivable that terrorist attacks should occur as a reaction to disapproval of certain inadequate attitudes of the press.

Keywords: crimes, fighting offences, hatred, methods of combating, punishments, vile reasons