Editing Hate crime (section)

====Denmark====
Although [[Denmark|Danish]] law does not include explicit hate crime provisions, "section 80(1) of the Criminal Code instructs courts to take into account the gravity of the offence and the offender's motive when meting out penalty, and therefore to attach importance to the racist motive of crimes in determining sentence."<ref>ECRI, "Second Report on Denmark," adopted on 16 June 2000, and made public on 3 April 2001, para. 9.</ref> In recent years judges have used this provision to increase sentences on the basis of racist motives.<ref name="human" /><ref>Chahrokh, Klug, and Bilger, Migrants, Minorities, and Legislation.</ref>

Since 1992, the Danish Civil Security Service (PET) has released statistics on crimes with apparent racist motivation.<ref name="human" />