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In Europe’s legal landscape, Ireland cuts a lonely figure in respect to hate crime. While its fellow European Union member states almost without exception have some kind of hate crime law, Ireland remains without a legislative framework to understand and address targeted violence motivated by prejudice. This surely isn’t because hate crime doesn’t exist in the country. Perennial reports by the European Network Against Racism, Ireland, evidence disturbing incidents of racist violence and abuse (see for example ENAR Ireland 2014) yet the Irish government maintains that its current legal framework, and judicial discretion are sufficient to effectively recognise and combat the problem. Of course law is not the only answer to combating hate.
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2014 figures for Denmark are not available, OSCE 2015
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In its Key Observation for Ireland for 2013 ODIHR stated, ‘ODIHR observes that Ireland has not reported on the numbers of prosecuted cases to ODIHR’, http://hatecrime.osce.org/ireland.
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See for example Belgium: http://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/15715
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Perry, J. (2017). Ireland in an International Comparative Context. In: Haynes, A., Schweppe, J., Taylor, S. (eds) Critical Perspectives on Hate Crime. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52667-0_5
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