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1 results foundAuthor: Kamenska, Anhelita Title: Combating Hate Crimes in Latvia: Legislation and Police Practice Summary: analyses the situation concerning hate crimes in Latvia, including legislation and police practises, in order to identify the gaps and to improve legislative and law enforcement responses to hate crimes. It provides an overview concerning the development of legislation criminalising hate crimes on racist and religious grounds from the Soviet period until present times, police structure in Latvia, statistics on hate crimes, police practises and challenges in investigating racist crimes as well as the increasing role of civil society in combating hate crimes. In the understanding of hate crimes, the paper has followed the ODIHR working definition of hate crime: A) Any criminal offence, including offences against persons or property, where the victim, premises, or target of the offence are selected because of their real or perceived connection, attachment, affiliation, support, or membership with a group as defined in Part B. B) A group may be based upon a characteristic common to its members, such as real or perceived race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or other similar factor. While the paper predominantly focuses on racist crimes, developments in Latvia in recent years strongly argue in favour of criminal legislation that would widen protection against hate motivated crimes towards sexual minorities, providing also for religious and homophobic motives as aggravating circumstances. The paper is one of the outputs of a two-year EU funded project, which has aimed to improve police capacity in identifying and investigating hate crimes, and to strengthen police and NGO co-operation and which has, inter alia, included mutual exchange study visits for Latvian and Czech Police and NGO representatives. The project also includes the publication of a research paper highlighting the experiences of victims of hate crimes in Latvia, national seminars and international conferences in both Latvia and the Czech Republic. All activities represent the search for new and effective ways of addressing hate crimes that would lead to improved policing, address the needs of the victims of hate crimes and foster meaningful co-operation between the police, NGOs and minority groups. Details: Riga, Latvia: Latvian Centre for Human Rights, 2008. 47p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 24, 2012 at http://www.humanrights.org.lv/upload_file/Naida_noziegums_ENG_Internetam.pdf Year: 2008 Country: Latvia URL: http://www.humanrights.org.lv/upload_file/Naida_noziegums_ENG_Internetam.pdf Shelf Number: 124729 Keywords: Hate Crimes (Latvia)Human RightsLegislation (Latvia)Police Policies and Procedures (Latvia) |