HATE CRIMES: CONCEPTS AND CRIMINOLOGICAL PHENOMENOLOGY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of hate crimes. On the
basis of a complex analysis of the understanding of hatred in psychology and
philosophy, linguistics proposed the definition of these criminal offenses as
aggressive-violent manifestations of discrimination provided for by the law on
criminal liability, caused by a strongly emotional, negative, group affiliation-
affiliated feeling of hostility towards representatives of certain social groups,
opposition to them and unbearable coexistence with them. In the broadest sense,
hate crimes are personified and/or affiliated or mixed (personified-affiliated)
aggressive and/or self-aggressive criminal practices of discrimination or self-
destruction, determined by contradiction, resentment, fear and/or guilt complex.
They have a complex phenomenological, existential nature, are embedded in the
mechanism of self-determination of crime, and therefore require a systemic
response from communities, the state, and international organizations.