Austria - 2012
Is there a legal definition of racist-hate crime?
- Code:
- RED21
- Key Area:
- Anti-racist Crime Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Racism
| Short Answer |
No |
| Qualitative Info |
There is no definition of racist-hate crime in the Austrian Criminal Code. However, Sec. 33 of the Criminal Code contains Besondere Erschwernisgründe (particular aggravating grounds) referring also to "aggravating circumstances of racist, xenophobic or other particularly condemnable motivations". Sect. 283 makes Verhetzung (incitement to hatred) against race, colour of skin or ethnic origin a punishable offence: "incitement to hatred is the public inducement or incitement to the commission of a hostile or violent act in a manner likely to endanger public order against a church, or religious community (existing in the state) or against a group determined by race, colour of skin, language, religion or Weltanschauung, nationality, descent, national or ethnic origin (...)." Source: http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10002296 |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, Intra-ethnic, Nationalism |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Political discourse -parties - orgs, Daily life |
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