Hate crimes My final thesis is dealing with the phenomenon of hate crimes. The purpose of the study is not only to provide a general theoretical knowledge of biased - motivated incidents, but also to present real criminal cases and show on them how dangerous pure hate can be. The thesis is composed of three main chapters, each of them concerns aspects of hate crimes. Chapter One is more or less introductory. The chapter is subdivided into three parts. The first of them describes and interprets the basic term "hate crime" from the view of various authors. Moreover, it also conciders the necessary elemens (like prejudice against sex, race, skin colour, nationallity, ethnicity and religion), which should be involved in the hate crime definitio...