Central European Papers 2021, 9(2):81-90 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2021.011

HATE CRIME ELIMINATION INSTRUMENTS IN HUNGARY

Matú¹ Vyrostko1
1 The Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy Faculty of Public Policies in Opava, Silesian University in Opava

Extremism is an undesirable anti-social phenomenon, belief or behavior that most  societies naturally try to eliminate, or at least mitigate its negative effects. The horrors of the Second World War significantly contributed to the understanding of the seriousness of the  radicalization of society, which can lead to the targeted murder of groups of the population on the basis of nationality, race, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation, etc. The aim of the article is to evaluate the relevance of legal measures against extremism and to point out the current problem areas of the fight against extremism in Hungary on the basis of a brief analysis of the Hungarian Criminal Code and the currently identified number of hate speech and hate acts in Hungary.  In the parts of the article we refer      to the comparison with the Criminal Code no. 300/2005 as amended (Criminal Code of the Slovak Republic). To meet the goal of the article, we use mainly qualitative scientific methods of deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis and comparison.

Keywords: extremism, hate crime, Hungary, criminal law

Received: October 21, 2021; Revised: November 22, 2021; Accepted: December 3, 2021; Published: April 13, 2022  Show citation

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