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81% of the offenders were autochthones, 16% not Western allochthones and 3% Western
allochthones. 10% of the offenders were women. 55% of the offenders were between 18 and
35 years of age. With growing age the number of discriminatory offences decreased. 22
The finding that offenders discriminating for reasons of anti-Semitism are relatively very
young is striking: 68% of these offenders were 12-25 years of age, more than half of them
belonging to the age group of those 12-17 years of age. 23
Another interesting research question was, in how far the offenders are acting from
conviction.
Little more aggressive offenders were acting without conviction than from conviction (30%
versus 26%).
Those acting without conviction primarily are committing verbal discrimination. Offenders
acting from conviction relatively often are committing daub.
Offenders discriminating from conviction are using less alcoholics, relatively seldom (4%)
drugs and more often no psychotropic substances (71%) than the offenders who do not act
from conviction (49%). 24
Looking at the sentencing practice fines and task penalties (community service orders) are the
most frequently used sanctions. Of the 948 cases 41,8 % ended with a fine and 25,4% with a
task penalty. If discriminative offences were combined with aggression or serious aggression
(offences with threat of life) the offenders were in most cases sentenced to prison sentences:
in 1,7% of the 948 settled cases to a sentence of 6 months or less and in 6,5% of all settled
cases to a sentence of more than 6 months. 25
In 70% of cases of specific discrimination the prosecution was founded only on the
discriminatory offence.
The results generally show that specific criminal discrimination as far as it came to the
attention of the Public Prosecution Service is likely to be neither in quantity nor in quality
very serious. However, what we know until now is only a little part of reality. Perhaps for this
reason most research findings arouse our curiosity.
3.4.3 Some results from the study on common criminal discrimination
22 Ch. Brants, R. Kool, A. Rignalda, Strafbare discriminatie, WODC 2007, p. 304.
23 Ch. Brants, R. Kool, A. Rignalda, Strafbare discriminatie, WODC 2007, p. 305.
24 Ch. Brants, R. Kool, A. Rignalda, Strafbare discriminatie, WODC 2007, p. 306.
25 Ch. Brants, R. Kool, A. Rignalda, Strafbare discriminatie, WODC 2007, p. 274.
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