Proof, Evidence and Hate Crime

A Study in Criminal Jurisprudence

Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka

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Routledge
18 July 2025

Crime & criminology; Comparative law; Criminology: legal aspects; Civil procedure: law of evidence; Criminal justice law

Proof is the property of a disputed fact being established inferentially from an extant fact. This book explicates the structural components of this phenomenon in the context of hate crimes across various jurisdictions around the world. It departs from the orthodox conception of evidence and proof as being a general, value-neutral (or non-normative) and epistemic subject, and offers a relativistic conception of this area of law. The core argument is that proof is both semantically and methodologically determined by three conditions of materiality, process and probativity. This argument is then justified by the context-specific application of this relativistic theory of proof to hate crimes. This theoretical application of proof is sustained throughout the book using multiple examples and illustrations of hate crimes around the world. The discussion, both at the level of proof and hate crimes, while focusing on the grounds of race, religion and ethnicity specifically, is framed in jurisprudential, cross-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary terms. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of criminal law, legal philosophy and procedural law.

By: Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032764535
ISBN 10: 1032764538
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 18 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 2. CHAPTER TWO: THE MATERIAL CONDITION 3. CHAPTER THREE: THE PROCESSUAL CONDITION 4. CHAPTER FOUR: A SHORT HISTORY OF PROOF 5. CHAPTER FIVE: THE PROBATIVE CONDITION I 6. CHAPTER SIX: THE PROBATIVE CONDITION II 7. CHAPTER SEVEN: THE STUDY OF APPLIED PROOF

Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka is Senior Lecturer, Advocate of the High Court and Young Fellow of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) College of Fellows, South Africa, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany.