Analysis of the Report of Data (OctoberDecember 2020) on Crime of Intolerance Committed on the Grounds of Discrimination

Abstract

The Constitution of Georgia guarantees the principle of equality of all human beings and the prohibition of discrimination on any grounds. It is this principle that is the highest guarantee to the use of all effective mechanisms to combat crimes of intolerance committed on the groundsdiscrimination. Furthermore,, the criminal procedure legislation enshrines an obligation of a comperhensive investigation of a crime committed on the grounds of discrimination. Georgia has an obligation to produce statistics on crimes of intolerance committed on the grounds of discriminationunder international treaties and acts. The production of this category of statistics will, on the one hand, help the state to plan a correct, unified policy to effectively combat crimes of intolerance committed on the grounds of discrimination, and on the other hand will enable stakeholders to obtain information on the prevalence of this category of crime. About: what is a main category of a crime committed with a motive of hatred; What is the courts approach to this category of crime; What kind of sentences is used in the main case by the court and other relevant issues. Until 2020, Georgia did not have a unified mechanism for producing statistics on crimes committed on the grounds of intolerance of discrimination. This information was collected in a fragmented and minimal manner (recording the number of cases initiated in the investigation, the number of persons prosecuted and the number of judgments rendered by the court). These data did not provide a complete picture for a wide range of assessments of this category of crime, which led to the need to develop a unified statistics memorandum. The paper is an attempt to study this issue in more detail and to analyze the first published unified statistical data.