CRIMINAL ABUSE OF POWER – SELECTED CRIMINAL LAW ISSUES USING THE EXAMPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS

• Authors: Kwasiński, Oskar

Abstracts

EN

The article features the crucial issues regarding the crime of abuse of power stipulated in Article 231 of the Polish Penal Code, based on cases that could be perpetrated by police offi cers. The author briefl y describes the basic elements of the structure of this crime, as seen through the eyes of the doctrine of criminal law and the judicatory. The author presents his own assessments, which shed new light on the questionable meanings of certain features of the crime in question. The key part of the work focuses on selected, thoroughly analysed, hypothetical cases of criminal abuse of power by police offi cers, and in this sense is a kind of case study.

Keywords

EN

abuse (excess) of power; criminal abuse of power; police; police offi cers; selected issues; criminal law issues; public offi cial; criminal law

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Policji w Szczytnie
• Journal: Przegląd Policyjny
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 139(3)
• Pages: 237-250

Dates

published

2020-11-30

Contributors

author

Kwasiński, Oskar

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.5589