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РусскийThe current state and separate issues related to combating racism and xenophobia as background phenomena of criminality, the concept of racism and xenophobia discussed in criminological science as a background for the crime phenomena are discovered and their criminal and criminological characteristics are shown in this article. Actualization of xenophobic and racist sentiments caused an increase of immigrants in Ukraine. In general, traditional Ukrainian society is among those in which the level of racism and xenophobia is not critical. The number of crimes motivated by hate is not less than 190 per year. This violent crimes are usually committed by organized groups of young people who belong to groups of skinheads and neo-fascis and aimed primarily at foreign students, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants, businessmen, diplomats and family members of UN staff who often come from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus or are visible groups of minorities from the West. Decision of these issues primarily consist of reduction of a high latency of these crimes, improvement of national legislation to implement a wider range of reasons for criminal and administrative liability of perpetrators of crimes aimed at inciting national, racial or religious hatred, legal assistance to victims of xenophobia and discrimination; expertise of national legislation in combating racism and xenophobia; drafting proposals to improve legislation related to combating offenses with a racial motive; improvement of reaction to using xenophobic clichés and expressions by media; development of appropriate training programs.
Keywords: racism, xenophobia, hatred, crime, skinheads.
