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Article is a summary of the research project realized in The Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the course of project, there were conducted national surveys addressed to juvenile judges, professional family probation officers, experts from diagnostic teams and the individual in-depth interviews with selected representatives of these groups. The aim of the article is to...
The article is a concise presentation of assembled statistic data about predication restriction of liberty in Elblag in years 1972-1974. Data disclose, that restriction of liberty was rarely used and executing of this penalty elicit a lot of precariousness.
Organized crime is a problem widely described in literature. Despite this, the constant change in the structure of criminal groups and the nature of organized crime committed by organized crime, encourages to further considerations. One of the ways is to conduct research that focuses on social assessments of this phenomenon. The aim of this article is to describe the author's own research results,...
The article presents various definitions of prevention, which are described through five levels: semantic, legal, institutional, practical and teleological. The first part of the article is dedicated to the general understanding of prevention and the second is about the prevention of human trafficking for sexual exploitation. This article is based on two sources: international legal standards and...
Access to the court can be understood on different ways. This may be the distance to the court building or some organizational and technical solutions related to the development of new information and communication technologies (ICT) and the access oAccess to the court can be understood on different ways. This may be the distance to the court building or some organizational and technical solutions...
Polish executive law allows for the possibility of implementing an individualised approach to imprisonment in a system encompassing programmed, therapeutic or normal rehabilitation. Polish laws take into full account the Convention's standards on the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1984 and the...
The aim of this article was to consider problem of crime in the city, why it is much higher than in the areas less populated, what have influence to it’s growths and falls, what are the effects of crime and actions that can be implemented to prevent it. In this Thesis I describe crime on the example of Warsaw as a place of commiting various types of crime, scale of crime and also places within it...
Punishment of confiscation of estate, property, possessions - one of the oldest sanctions applied for committing crimes occurred. Punishment was applied in criminal justice systems of totalitarian states: Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, in socialistic countries also. In article, I present criminological research of persons convicted on punishment of confiscation in 80. of XX century in Poland. I analyse...
The article presents the phenomenon of missing persons, which due to its multidimensional character, can also be considered by the criminogical connections. This article is focused on the potencial of long-term disappearances in estimating the dark figure of crimes, including offences made directly on the missing persons, and offences that has become the impulse for deciding to disappear. It shows...
This paper aims to analyze the responsibility of minors for their crimes in context of the 1982 act on proceedings with minors, as well as with article 10§2 of the Penal Code. It argues that the fundament in judicial adjudication on minors is the 1982 act. Court does not „sentence” them on serving in correctional institution, but he „decides” on their placement there. Correctional measure, is obviously...
Paper discusses the project „Prisoners extremely long-term sentenced - the right to a second chance” conducted at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization of the University of Warsaw in 2014–2016. The program was targeted at prisoners who were sentenced for 25 years in prison or life imprisonment. On the other hand, it was also aimed at students. They took part in prison workshops organized...
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