Criminal law dealing with hate crimes : functional comparative law, Germany vs. USA /
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| Author / Creator: | Shavers, Christine Marie, 1981- author. |
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, 2014. |
| Description: | xviii, 337, [44] pages ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Schriften zum strafrecht und strafprozessrecht ; Band 117 Schriften zum Strafrecht und Strafprozessrecht ; Bd. 117. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10090436 |
| 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, 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. |
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| Item Description: | Based on author's thesis - Ludwig-Mazmillian-University in Munich. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 337, [44] pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-lxi) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783631642207 3631642202 |