CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Zygmunt, Claudia |
|---|---|
| Title | The uncomfortable fit. Hate crimes beyond the conventional typology - the study on gender-based violence and misogyny. |
| Summary | The raising awareness of the prevalence of violence against women and its sources in the historically entrenched dominance-subordination relationship between genders more and more often put gender-based violence onto the agenda of national parliaments and international organizations. This adverse phenomenon, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and a new surge of bias-motivated crimes caused by the pandemic launched another discussion of the potential role of hate crime laws in combating violence against women. The ultimate purpose of the present research is to examine the defining characteristics of hate crimes laws and normative legitimacy for their special status within the criminal justice system. Furthermore, the paper scrutinizes if the general findings correspond with the characteristics of violence against women and makes an attempt to answer the research question of whether gender-motivated and misogynistic crimes might fit within the hate crime paradigm. Moreover, the paper scrutinizes the presence of gender and sex among European hate crime regulations and analyzes the legal and pragmatic aspects of the ongoing legislative procedures in England and Wales and Italy aimed at extending the hate crime protection to women. |
| Supervisor | Petra Bárd |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/zygmunt_claudia.pdf |
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