Hate Crimes: Focused on Perpetrators and Victims of These Acts

This bachelor thesis concentrates on the phenomenon called hate crimes. At first, the attention is given to the definition of this concept. The thesis also explains another terms connected with hate crimes and comes with possible translation of this term to Czech. Furthermore, it mentions forms of hate crimes and some of the real cases in brief. It also describes types of hate crimes. One of the chapters discusses the perpetrator, his motives, typology of the offender and hate crimes committed by groups. As the thesis wants to capture the complete dynamics of the phenomenon, it also concentrates on the victims of hate crimes at the end of the theoretical part. The proposition of research is connected with the perpetrators sentenced for committing hate- or bias- motivated bodily harm or grievous bodily harm in the Czech Republic. The first aim of the research is to compare these perpetrators' social skills to social skills of normal population and to social skills of perpetrators of other than hate- or bias-motivated bodily harm or grievous bodily harm. The second aim of the research is to find out which components of social skills seem to be the most problematic for perpetrators of hate crime. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org