Italy - 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. |
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| Qualitative Info |
In Italian criminal code there is not a clear legal definition of racist-hate crime. The Immigration Act contains a “black list” of discriminatory acts, roughly corresponding to the scope of application of the Race Directive (although the list in the Immigration Act is a non-exhaustive one), providing remedies from the realm of civil law. Besides these rules, existed (and are still in force) some criminal law provisions contained in the 1993 act (Mancino’s Law) aimed at sanctioning the diffusion of “hate speech” and racist propaganda, which provide harsh punishments for “acts of discrimination on racial, ethnic, national or religious grounds”. Source: European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-Discrimination Field – Report on measures to combat discrimination. Directives 2000/43/ec and 2000/78/ec. Country report 2009 Italy - /resources/toolip/doc/2011/12/05/2009-it-country-report-by-european-network-in-non-discrimination.pdf |
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| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Ethnic minorities | |
| Type (R/D) | Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic | |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Policing - law enforcement, Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism | |
| External Url | www.diritto.it/materiali/immigrazione/legge_mancino_205.pdf | |
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