Hate Crimes in Globalization Era Good Practices in Analysing them in European Union Countries

Hate crimes are all those crimes based on a discriminatory motivation. The aim of this paper is to analyze the jurisprudence of the ECtHR and of other decisions adopted within international bodies classified as facts that seriously affect the democracy of the states. The OSCE named them as those crimes committed because of intolerance towards certain social groups, based on certain prejudices related to ethnicity, race, gender or sexual orientation. The main objectives are a systematic analyse of hate crimes typology, identifying good practices in fighting them, and revealing the social inequities and the differences based on ethnicity or religion that are often a cause for the creation of xenophobia, as evidenced by the events that took place in Transylvania between Protestants and Northern Irish Catholics, in Algeria during French rule, between African Americans in America, whites and Hispanics, during the apartheid period in South Africa, and last but not least, in Europe between Christians and Jews or between Roma and the rest of the population.