Phenomenon area

Phenomenon area is a term used by the security authorities in Germany since 2001 in order to collect, record and evaluate the crimes recorded under the collective term " politically motivated crime (PMK)" nationwide. The definition system "Politically motivated crime (PMK)" as well as the "Guidelines for the criminal police reporting service in cases of politically motivated crime (KPMD-PMK)" are based on a resolution of the Conference of Interior Ministers of May 10, 2001.

Politically motivated crimes

The police is different in politically motivated crime between the following five areas phenomenon:

• Politically motivated crime - left (PMK - left)
• Politically motivated crime - right (PMK - right)
• Politically Motivated Crime - Religious Ideology
• Politically motivated crime - foreign ideology (PMK abroad)
• Politically motivated crime - other (not assignable)

Until 2016, foreign and religious ideologies were a phenomenon.

defense of Constitution

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the State Authorities for the Protection of the Constitution and the Military Counter-Intelligence Service differentiate between the following phenomena:

• Left-wing extremism
• Right-wing extremism
• Islamism / Islamist Terrorism
• Foreign extremism

The task of counter-espionage by the constitution protection authorities is not a phenomenon.

literature

• Constitutional Protection Report 2018. (PDF) In: Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home . June 27, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 . 

Web links

• Definitions of the phenomenon areas. In: The police chief in Berlin . Retrieved October 19, 2019 . 
• Politically Motivated Crime (PMK). In: Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Retrieved October 19, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Politically Motivated Crime" - Explanation of Terms Scientific Services of the German Bundestag , September 7, 2018
2. ↑ Heike Kleffner , Mark Holzberger: Was there what? Reform of the police recording of right-wing offenses February 29, 2004
3. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the small question of the parliamentary groups of the CDU / CSU and SPD - printed matter 18/12811 - politically motivated crimes in Germany in May 2017 (printed matter 18/13071). In: German Bundestag - 18th electoral term. July 6, 2017, accessed October 19, 2019 .