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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
Journal Impact FactorTM (2022) 1.7
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Received: 2020-05-18  |  Accepted: 2020-09-30  |  Published: 2020-12-30

Title

The instigation of hatred: questions of legal evaluation and procedural issues


Abstract

Considering the infringements upon the principle of equality caused by hate crimes, as well as the negative impact of such crimes not only on their victims but also on other persons within the same group of vulnerable people, the authors of this paper analyse hate speech as a criminally punishable act. The analysis of this issue is of essential importance as hate speech manifests on the internet, often via comments made online, a worrying issue as hate speech is therefore often tolerated. This article raises the question of the delimitation of hate speech from hate crime; the authors present an analytical overview of national and international case law, providing an insight into the process of distinguishing hate speech from a person’s right to exercise their freedom of self-expression. A separate section covers the challenges that law enforcement authorities face when investigating incidents of hate speech online, where criminal activities often trespass the borders of a single state and their investigation requires tools of international cooperation to receive or transfer electronic evidence.


Keywords

criminal procedure, criminal law, hate crime, hate speech, e-evidence


JEL classifications

K10 , K14


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/736


DOI


Pages

896-913


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Authors

Murauskienė, Dovilė
Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.mruni.eu
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Jurka, Raimundas
Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.mruni.eu
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Zajančkauskienė, Jolanta
Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.mruni.eu
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

8


Number

2


Issue date

December 2020


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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