Crimes that are motivated by prejudice or bias towards certain personal characteristics of the victim are commonly referred to as “hate crimes”. Such criminal conduct is said to cause greater harms than criminal conduct ...

This article, which is the second of a two-part submission, examines the South African legal position pertaining to sexual offences and murder as a continuation of the theme introduced in Part One. The authors then examine ...

Several calls, from a wide spectrum of sectors for the enactment of hate-crime legislation in South Africa, suggest that there is limited knowledge about the theoretical underpinnings of this area of criminal law and of ...