National Compilation Paper - Poland: Surveying the Nature and Scale of Unreported Hate Crimes against Members of Selected Communities

The purpose of this paper is to present the experience of conducting a victimization survey to assess the scale of hate crimes against selected communities in Poland, as well as the social and psychological consequences of such crimes. The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland (OCHR) conducted the survey as part of ODIHR’s project on “Building a Comprehensive Criminal Justice System Response to Hate Crime”.