Criminal Law Framework for Processing Hate Crimes (Analitika - Centar za društvena istraživanja, sva prava pridržana, 2014)
Analysing the criminal law framework for processing a certain type of criminal offence presupposes that this criminal offence differs from other criminal offences by one or more characteristics and that this specificity has implications for the application of certain general institutes of criminal law (substantive and procedural). With hate crimes, this distinctive characteristic is the particular motive for their commission. This paper deals with the significance of this special characteristic for the processing of hate crimes understood as per the changes and amendments to the Criminal Code of Republika Srpska (hereinafter: CC RS), the Criminal Code of the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: CC BD BiH) 2010 and the Draft Law on Changes and Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: CC FBiH), June 2013