ABSTRACT
Introduction Hate crime laws present a new paradigm in criminal law: they require incrimination of civil and human rights violations. Their militant nature undermines the traditional inflexibility of pro reo and pro libertate axioms in criminal law. They also represent a holistic incrimination approach as they should cover (according to the definition of “hate” one chooses) every form of relevant behavior-conceived of as a part of an organic whole.† Indeed, hate crimes are in this regard a candidate for a methodology, which has been (as allegedly representing epistemologically a version
Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................131 Dilemmatic Stand of the Reaction of the Democratic Legal Systems in the West ......................132 Main Forms of Dealing with Hate through Criminal Law ........................................................133
