Finland - 2012
Are there legal definitions of racist incident and racist violence?
- Code:
- RED23
- Key Area:
- Anti-racist Crime Legislation & Implementation
- Strand(s):
- Racism
| Short Answer |
No, there are no legal definitions of racist incident and violence. |
| Qualitative Info |
The police practice in classifying a reported incident as a racist concerns the motivation of the act. The police will mark the report of an offence with a code denoting racist incident, if there are grounds to suspect that the perpetrator's/perpetrators' motivation was the victim's/victims' belonging to a national, racial or ethnic group.
The provision on increasing the punishement on grounds of racist motivation is applicable to all types of crimes with the exception of discrimination, work discrimination and agitation to hatered on grounds of national, racial or ethnic origin. These three types of crime are viewed as containing in themselves the prohibition of racism. |
| Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Majority, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people, National minorities |
| 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, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Anti-racism |
| External Url | http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf |
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