Open AccessMilitary Bias Crimes
Author(s) -
Miroslav Mareš
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vojenské rozhledy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2336-2995
pISSN - 1210-3292
DOI - 10.3849/2336-2995.21.2012.03.140-147
Subject(s) - nationality , prejudice (legal term) , sect , law , sexual orientation , element (criminal law) , political science , criminology , politics , military service , ethnic group , czech , race (biology) , sociology , psychology , social psychology , immigration , gender studies , philosophy , linguistics
This article analyses a new element in the Czech criminal law-Military Bias Crimes. They are included in the new Criminal Code 40/2009 Coll., Sect. XII. The bias motive is characterized by a prejudice against race, ethnicity, nationality, political belief, religious belief or atheism, but not against the so-called sexual orientation, in contrast to the situation in the US. Perpetrators of some military bias crimes, § 378, § 379, § 380, can be not only soldiers, prisoners of war, but also members of security corps (Police, Security Intelligence Service etc.). Up to now, the use of these new norms of the Czech penal law has been limited.