Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.9871
Katarzyna Osiak-Krynicka, Mateusz Derdak
A minor as a victim cannot act independently in a criminal trial. In accordance with Article 51(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the rights of the minor are represented by their statutory representatives, i.e. their parents (if the minor remains under their parental authority). If, however, the perpetrator of the crime against the child is the other parent or a spouse of the parent, the non-offending parent is excluded from representing the child. In this case, the guardianship court will appoint a guardian ad litem. The goal of this institution is to implement and safeguard the interests of the child during the criminal trial. In practice, however, it often happens that these guardians do not fulfil their duties in a way that guarantees the due protection of the minor. In extreme cases, they are not appointed at all or are appointed too late. While looking for a solution that would guarantee the proper protection of the rights of the minor, the Ministry of Justice presented a proposal for the introduction of the position of “helper” of a minor who is a victim. This publication is a detailed analysis of the institution of the guardian ad litem, and studies the validity of the introduction of an additional entity with the authority to defend the rights of an aggrieved child.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.9667
Alan Kosecki
In this paper the author addresses the issue of mutual recognition of probation decisions within the European Union from the perspective of the State and the convicted person. He characterizes the idea and general regulation of this aspect of cross-border cooperation in order to present the benefits and dangers of this institution for both entities. Through the analysis of legal acts, jurisprudence and reports on the practical application of these provisions, it points out the need for further development of international cooperation in criminal matters but also for changes in this area, putting forward the thesis that this institution is currently underestimated and underdeveloped in practical terms. The article contains a comprehensive characterization of both the formation of cooperation between European Union Member States in the area of mutual recognition of probation decisions and the principles on which it is based. It pays particular attention to the process of social resocialization and the influence of this institution on general and individual prevention. The analysis of the above issue will lead to postulates aimed at finding a remedy for at least some of the problems raised in the paper with the application of the institution in practice. The article is also a response to the accelerating process of globalization, the spreading of free movement of people within the European Union and the development trends of the Community, which implies a situation in which more and more crimes are committed by foreigners taking advantage of the openness of borders.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.9670
J. Siemionow
Youth social rehabilitation and socio-therapy centres are places for socially maladjusted adolescents aged between 12 and 19 who have special educational needs, require special interactions and therapy as well as suffer from behavioural and emotional disorders. The role of these institutions is to prepare young people for independent, creative and responsible life in non-institutional environment. The study of sense of self-security is one of the main obligatory tasks which should be performed minimum twice a year in each institution as regulated by the Polish law according to the Polish Ministry of Education and Science which administers all the centres. This study aims at recognizing how youth social rehabilitation centres and socio-therapy centres conduct the surveys connected with the sense of adolescents’ self-security when they are in residential care. The article presents the quantitative research with over ninety participants, which constitutes almost 60% of all these institutions in Poland. The participants responded to the online questionnaire. The main research problem is the way the process of examining youths' sense of security in these institutions is carried out and the factors it depends on. The results show that there are no differences between these two kinds of researched institutions in investigating the youths’ sense of self-security. Youth social rehabilitation and socio-therapy centres fully perform this duty but do so differently. The results of the research in the article also show that it is necessary to analyze further the information and data about youth’s self-security.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.9666
J. Kluza
The subject of the article is to answer the question whether the perpetrator of a prohibited act under Art. 193 or 191 § 1a of the Criminal Code may be the owner of an apartment who undertakes the forced eviction from the apartment of tenants who have stopped paying for the apartment and whose tenancy has been terminated. In the doctrine and jurisprudence, it has already been settled in principle that the owner of the apartment may be responsible for the violation of the home life during the term of the contract between him and the aggrieved party. However, the issue of what the situation looks like in the event of an effective termination of the contract was not commented on in greater detail. This issue requires a closer look.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.9668
Czesław Paweł Kłak
The article presents an analysis of the relationships related to the execution of a custodial sen-tence in the period of an epidemic threat or state of epidemic announced due to COVID-19 – a break in the execution of a custodial sentence, placing a convict in an appropriate treatment facility and ”remote” treatment penitentiary court. These solutions have been in force until now, but it is postulated that the court will not be able to hold meetings in executive proceed-ings in a ”remote” form ”permanently”.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.9669
Aneta Łyżwa
The article deals with electronic surveillance as one of the forms of imprisonment. The author's intention was to present this institution as serving the realization of statutory goals of imprisonment. In this way, the hypothesis that this supervision is an important element of the contemporary penitentiary policy of our country has been proved. In addition, the aim of the presented study was to present the social aspects of the use of electronic surveillance, including the benefits that the prisoner achieves. The author has described the institution in question and the principles of its functioning. She also formulated a de lege ferenda postulate to limit the possibility of using the supervision in question by convicts serving their sentences in penitentiary institutions. She presented selected results of surveys conducted twice by the Justice Institute and an audit conducted by the Supreme Chamber of Control in 2013 to assess the functioning of electronic supervision. She referred to the opinions of some representatives of doctrine in the aspect of evaluation of the supervision in question, including as a tool of the state's re-socialisation policy. She also formulated a number of conclusions and her own assessments.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0015.8796
Marcin Jurgilewicz, Andrzej Dana
The article in its content refers to the little commented issue related to penitentiary detention as a Wednesday of legal reaction and in its terms it has a de lege lata character. The aim of the article was to draw attention to the procedural and technical sphere related to the detention of a person in the penitentiary detention mode. Another aim of the article has become an attempt to draw attention to whether it is possible to regulate penitentiary detention in a standardized manner in one normative act. The legal exegesis presented in the study clearly indicates that the issue of penitentiary detention has been dispersed in many normative acts. Such a situation, in turn, creates undefined spheres, because its implementation is carried out in time – from the moment the person is arrested by the Police until the person is brought to a penitentiary unit. Therefore, the study posed a research question to what extent it is possible to simplify this procedure at the normative level, which would include a consolidated legal act.
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