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The publication discusses introduction of new solutions pertaining to human trafficking to Polish legal system, namely the very definition of the phenomenon in the act of law. The article is divided into 6 parts. In part one, the author indicates the reasons why the law in this area needs to be changed and enumerates the duties imposed on the legislator. Since human trafficking is a very complex criminological phenomenon, part three discusses the problem of the criminological definition of human trafficking. The legislator, creating penal provisions for such deeds must naturally take the phenomenology of human trafficking into account, at the same time bearing in mind that the provisions at this stage of using them will be subject to interpretation. This interpretation, as criminal law is repressive in nature, has its own rules. Hence part four is devoted to selected issues of interpretation in criminal law but only from the point of view of the analysed changes in law. The penultimate part includes discussion of the role and meaning of legal definitions in criminal law, also in the light of international obligations of the Republic of Poland. The final part contains a critical analysis of the definition of human trafficking.
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The subject of our considerations will be conceptions of criminalization of poverty as a result of spiral of strengthening the deviancy through moral panic. Despite of decrease of interest in the phenomenon of strengthening the deviancy researchers of criminality still refer to the conceptions of deviancy such as Stanley Cohen’s and Jock Young’s conception of moral panic, which examines social pathologies and analyzes social stigmatization of outsiders.
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The article study the problem of the criminalization of terrorist offenses and the phenomenon of globalization.Author draws attention to the dynamic development of this type of crime in recent years and the change of behaviors constituting its features, as well as the impact of international law standards on the shape of existing national regulations in this area. An important part of the study is to underline the importance of the phenomenon of terrorism, and therefore also the need to rationally establish standards that will be the basis for prosecution and sentencing acts of terrorism. The author considers elements of the definition of a terrorist offense, raising the allegation of too much flexibility and justifying the need for legal changes in the face of the dynamic development of terrorism and the use of ever-newer techniques of committing it.
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The purpose of this article is to present the main problems connected with criminalization of human behavior. At the level of legislative policy, such problems revolve around two fundamental issues. In this regard, what ought to be noted is the possibility of isolating factors that would decide on making another sphere of human behavior subject to legal and penal control. Furthermore, considering the type and scope of the statutory threat of punishment, which would allow for maintaining rational punishment standards, ought to be recognized as equally important.
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According to Art. 196 of the Polish Penal Code of 1997, anyone who offends the religious feelings of others by publicly profaning an object of religious worship or a place dedicated to the public celebration of religious rites is liable to a fine, the restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to two years. This provision is criticized in the scientific and journalistic debate. It is proposed to be deleted. The aim of the article is to review the most important arguments for and against the use of criminal sanctions for offending religious feelings, as well as an attempt to answer the question whether the state should punish this type of behavior and how to properly justify it in a contemporary pluralistic, liberal society.
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The article concerns the criminalization of unlawful activity related to trading of financial instruments. The given problem is analyzed on the background of existing forms of protection of the capital market. The paper presents also a wide analysis of the object of criminal protection and also of punishable behaviors of the offender and illegal activity related to trading of financial instruments.
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The image of the ethnic deviant other is present today in many ways: for example in deep-rooted perceptions of Roma as habitual criminals or in jokes about Polish car thieves. This article examines ethnically based criminalization using the historical example of two regions: the eastern provinces of Prussia and the Bohemian Lands. It intends to uncover mechanisms and interpretative patterns through which outside images of particular ethnic groups were associated with notions of criminality, and thus served to construct groups of criminal "others". With this purpose in mind, the article analyzes discourses and regional social practices in relation to criminality.
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Niniejsze opracowanie podnosi problem zakresu kryminalizacji przestępstw o charakterze terrorystycznym wobec zjawiska globalizacji sensu largo. Autor zwraca bowiem uwagę na dynamiczny rozwój tego rodzaju przestępczości na przestrzeni ostatnich lat oraz zmianę typów zachowań wypełniających jej znamiona, jak również wpływ norm prawa międzynarodowego na kształt obowiązujących regulacji krajowych w tym zakresie. Istotną część opracowania stanowi podkreślenie wagi zjawiska terroryzmu, a zatem także konieczność racjonalnego stanowienia norm, które będą podstawą ścigania czynów o charakterze terrorystycznym. Autor rozważa poszczególne elementy defnicji przestępstwa o charakterze terrorystycznym, podnosząc zarzut ich zbyt dużej elastyczności i uzasadnia konieczność zmian prawnych wobec dynamicznego rozwoju terroryzmu i wykorzystywaniu coraz to nowszych technik jego popełniania. The article study the problem of the criminalization of terrorist offenses and the phenomenon of globalization. Author draws attention to the dynamic development of this type of crime in recent years and the change of behaviors constituting its features, as well as the impact of international law standards on the shape of existing national regulations in this area. An important part of the study is to underline the importance of the phenomenon of terrorism, and therefore also the need to rationally establish standards that will be the basis for prosecution and sentencing acts of terrorism. The author considers elements of the definition of a terrorist offense, raising the allegation of too much flexibility and justifying the need for legal changes in the face of the dynamic development of terrorism and the use of ever-newer techniques of committing it.
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The article study the problem of the criminalization of terrorist offenses and the phenomenon of globalization. Author draws attention to the dynamic development of this type of crime in recent years and the change of behaviors constituting its features, as well as the impact of international law standards on the shape of existing national regulations in this area. An important part of the study is to underline the importance of the phenomenon of terrorism, and therefore also the need to rationally establish standards that will be the basis for prosecution and sentencing acts of terrorism. The author considers elements of the definition of a terrorist offense, raising the allegation of too much flexibility and justifying the need for legal changes in the face of the dynamic development of terrorism and the use of ever-newer techniques of committing it.
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The article concerns the phenomenon of stalking, or emotional persecution. It also presents legal solutions concerning stalking in the countries where this type of behavior is penalized, and includes a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of criminalization of stalking in Poland. In contrast with the admiration, stalking is a behavior which a victim does not wish. Stalking is an English verb denoting a quiet human or animal tracking in order to capture or kill. In accordance to the definition of an American psychologist J. Reid Meloy, stalking is a form of malicious and repeated harassing and annoying of another person which increases his or her feeling of threat. Stalking, just like domestic violence, and mobbing are classified as so-called "emotional violence", by which we understand “interference in the psyche of another person directed against his or her emotions, resulting both immediate and delayed negative effects”. Emotional violence is never a single event. Stalking most often exhibits in such behaviors as: calls, silent calls, night calls, wandering in the vicinity of victim's home, making contact through a third party, questioning about the victim in his or her surroundings, persisting at the door / home / work, sending letters, e-mails, text messages, and gifts, placing postal orders in victim's name, tracking and following the victim, slander (distributing false information and rumors), burglary to victims house or car, stealing victim's belongings, harassing victim's family and friends, as well as attacking and assaulting them. The main problem with providing an adequate legal protection to a victim of a stalker lies in the fact that some of these behaviors are criminal, and some are not prohibited by law, nevertheless if repeated, they carry severe consequences for the victim which cannot be counteracted by means of criminal law. The tragedy of stalking victims lies in the fact that a persecutor may intimidate his victims and force them to change habits and plans, to live in constant fear. Stalker often causes huge mental suffering through actions which, under Polish law, are legally indifferent. What is also important is that actions of a stalker do not have to result from his or her wrongful intentions or desire to annoy the victim (in many law systems malicious intention of the stalker is a sine qua non for criminalization of stalking). Sometimes the persecutor acts with good intentions (the desire to win the love of a loved one), nevertheless behavior of the stalker is frightening for the victim. Results of a study taken to estimate the scale of stalking differ between countries where such studies have been conducted. This discrepancy is probably influenced by the definition assumed by researchers, research methodology, sample size and selection, but also by the different temperament of the inhabitants of these countries.
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The underlying objective of the analysis carried out in the paper was on the one hand to evaluate how the results of criminological examinations translate into the legislator’s decision as to the scope of criminalisation of a selected undesirable behaviour, taking into account both the requirements of criminal policy and problems resulting from the imperfect nature of language as a carrier of the contents of such a decision. On the other hand, the paper was intended to determine whether other normative tools than those offered by penal law can more effectively respond to violations of legal interests of an aggrieved party. The phenomenon of stalking and related regulations, namely § 107a of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Austria and § 382g of the Austrian Federal Act on Execution and Safeguarding Proceedings, was used to illustrate the analyses. The paper makes references to several judgments of the Supreme Court of Justice of Austria, and uses the formaldogmatic method, as well as the deductive approach and criminological diagnoses to carry out a critical analysis of the regulations referred to above.
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Zasadniczym celem podjętych rozważań była z jednej strony ocena przekładalności wyników badań kryminologicznych na decyzję ustawodawcy o zakresie kryminalizacji wyselekcjonowanego zachowania niepożądanego, przy uwzględnieniu zarówno potrzeb dyktowanych polityką kryminalną, jak i problemów wynikających z ułomności języka jako nośnika treści takiej decyzji; z drugiej zaś odpowiedź na pytanie, czy inne niż prawnokarne narzędzia normatywne są w stanie skuteczniej reagować na naruszanie dóbr prawnych osoby pokrzywdzonej. Jako egzemplifikację wybrano zjawisko stalkingu oraz powiązane z nim regulacje, tj. § 107a austriackiego kodeksu karnego oraz § 382g ustawy o procedurze egzekucyjnej i zabezpieczającej w austriackim postępowaniu cywilnym. W pracy odwołano się do kilku orzeczeń austriackiego Sądu Najwyższego, a wykorzystując metodę formalno-dogmatyczną, dedukcyjną oraz diagnozy kryminologicznej, dokonano krytycznej analizy wskazanych regulacji.
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The current form of the phenomenon termed stadium hooliganism differs substantially to the form characteristic of 1960-1970s, and even 1980s. This is, on one hand, a result of change in deviant behaviour of spectators, on the other hand a result of material change in what behaviours are labelled, and thus controlled, by the state. While initially hooliganism consisted in acts of violence and vandalism on stadiums and in their immediate vicinity, deviant behaviours of spectators fundamentally changed with time. Re-design of stadiums, introduction of exclusively numbered seats and tickets, spectator video surveillance, ticket sale control systems, and many other technical measures to eliminate the sense of anonymity in the football fans – along with extension of the catalogue of football-related behaviours which are criminalised – resulted in relative safety of European, and to less extent Polish, stadiums. This resulted in transfer of deviant behaviour of spectators outside stadiums. At present, two types of behaviours are commonly considered in relation to stadium hooliganism. First, all deviant behaviours of (some) spectators manifested on the stadium or in its immediate vicinity in strict temporal and spatial relation to a match. Second, all other deviant behaviours of (some) spectators manifested outside stadiums and in less and less strict temporal, emotional and spatial relation to a sport event. Until 1985 penal policy towards stadium hooliganism – on the tier of national regulations, international cooperation, legal acts by European organs and UEFA – was surprisingly uniform in perception of the phenomenon as a social problem which does not require any particular methods or measure of control and which does not require any particular legislation. 1985 was a turning point as far as legal position of the phenomenon is concerned. Accepting in Strasbourg on 19 August 1985 the European Convention on Spectator Violence and Misbehaviour at Sports Events and in particular at Football Matches by Council of Europe initiated an entirely new approach to the policy of prevention of the phenomenon. Since 1985, legal acts concerning stadium hooliganism have been passed both on national and international level. Stadium hooliganism was termed a serious social problem in the area of public order solution of which requires introduction and implementation of particular legal regulations and particular methods of supervision and control. Including stadium hooliganism into the category of social phenomena which carry a risk for functioning of the society as a whole, such as terrorism, delinquency of immigrants, juvenile delinquency or drug addiction is an effect of wider transformations in European penal policy which have been present since the end of 1970s. This is related to emergence of strong tendencies towards politicisation of internal security issues at the time.
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The publication discusses the nature, premises, and methods of sentencing a penal measure consisting in prohibition of entry to mass events. The first part shows legal solutions accepted in the European Convention on Spectator Violence and Misbehaviour at Sports Events and in particular at Football Matches accepted on 19 August 1985 by Council of Europe. It is recognised at one of the most important international documents providing for the fight with stadium hooliganism. Although the Convention’s aim is to prevent and control incidents by football spectators, provisions of the Convention apply also to other disciplines which might posit the risk of acts of violence and incidents by spectators (article 1 paragraph 12 of the Convention). Subsequently, there follows an analysis of legal solutions accepted in the current Act of 20 march 2009 on Mass Events Safety and the former Act of 22 January 1997 on Mass Events Safety. In particular, the focus was placed on the evolution of the prohibition of entry to a mass event and the definition of a legal mass event which at present is no longer based on the number of participants predicted by the organiser but on the number of places made available by the organiser. It is a result of common malpractice practice of organisers who used to omit the requirements by declaring less people than were actually expected. 2. Second part of the publication presents statistical data concerning contraventions related to mass sport events between 1999 and 2009 in Poland. The data show that there is a decreasing tendency in mass contraventions and hooligan incidents. At the same time, the data bring the conclusion that most hooligan incidents were committed during mass events. This may prove that objects where such events are organised are still ill-equipped but also that the organisers fail to observe their duties, imposed on them by the Act on Mass Events Safety. This part of publication also drafts a profile of the perpetrators of hooligan events. The study shows they are unmarried males between 15 and 25 with primary or secondary education and without a previous criminal record. 3. Part three of the publication is an analysis of normative solutions of the penal measure consisting in prohibition of entry to mass events. It includes provisions of Criminal Code, Petty Offences Code and Act of 20 march 2009 on Mass Events Safety. The analysis brings a conclusion that introduction of mass entry event ban served the purpose of increasing the safety of mass events and excluding persons who posit a risk to said safety. Thus, introduction of such legal solution to Polish law should be undisputable. Doubts can be raised only if particular solutions are examined, for instance the interpretation of “personal appearance” in a police station during a mass event.
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This article is the second part of a study devoted to the problematic aspects of pregnancy interruption. In the undertaken analysis, some references were made to the draft amendment to the Constitution (print 993 of 2007), authors of which insisted on specifying the borderlines of human life’s protection. In the above considerations the attention was paid to the premises, which are necessary to be taken into account in case of potential changing of the abortion law in Poland. Within this scope some references were made especially to: conditions of acknowledgement of the human fetus as an interest protected by penal law, the inter-relations between law and morality, and to the expected profit and loss balance, connected with the increasing criminalization of the pregnancy interruption.
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The paper discusses the idea of a colonised subject that emerged out of the legal process and the social realities that gave it a social context. The colonized subject was at times reduced to a criminal category — and at other times even excised out of history; in either case, the process embodied the complexities and ambiguities of the role of law in the process of colonial power and its state project. This essay seeks to point to some of these instances and in the process make a case for revisiting the social history of law, or in other words for assessing the relationship of law to wider social relations. The colonial state had to compete with other sources of traditional authority and entitlement about the right to take life of oneself or of others. The paper refers to some specific instances of state intervention and of defining criminality, but not to project a sense of the exceptional about Indian society but to draw attention to precisely those areas of ambiguity that made colonial law a complex project fraught with tensions and ambiguities. The failure to condemn certain practices outright and the tendency to conflate religion with custom and tradition had the effect of pathologising India as the site of permanent difference and of condemning the Indian subject to an always deferred state of reform and improvement.
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W artykule omówiono pojęcie podmiotu skolonizowanego, które wyłoniło się w toku procesu prawnego oraz z rzeczywistości społecznej, która nadała mu kontekst społeczny. W niektórych przypadkach podmiot skolonizowany sprowadzano do przestępcy, w innych wymazywano wręcz z kart historii. W obu przypadkach proces ten odzwierciedlał złożoność i niejasność roli prawa w procesie wykonywania władzy kolonialnej i w przyjętym projekcie państwa. Autor stara się wskazać odnośne przykłady i dowieść, że warto ponownie spojrzeć na społeczną historię prawa, lub też, innymi słowy, ocenić stosunek prawa do szerszych relacji społecznych. Państwo kolonialne musiało współzawodniczyć z innymi tradycyjnymi źródłami władzy jak i walczyć o prawo do odebrania życia sobie lub innym. Artykuł odwołuje się do konkretnych przykładów interwencji państwa i określania przestępczości. Nie ma na celu dowieść wyjątkowości sytuacji społeczeństwa hinduskiego; chce raczej zwrócić uwage na te obszary niejasności, które sprawiły, że ustanowienie prawa kolonialnego stało się skomplikowanym projektem, naznaczonym napięciami i niejednoznacznościami. Brak otwartego potępienia niektórych praktyk oraz skłonność do lączenia religii ze zwyczajem i tradycją doprowadziły do patologizacji Indii jako miejsca trwałych różnic oraz do skazania Hindusów na życie w stanie oczekiwania na odkładaną naprawę i reformy.
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The article tries to answer the legal-philosophical problem underlying the continental theories of criminalization, i.e., what the reasons are for the legislator establishing a specific catalogue of interests protected by law. To answer this question, the authors first outline what characterizes continental criminalization theories (as opposed to common law ones), and then present two basic types of theories justifying the legislator’s choice of legal interests: systemic-inherent and system-transcendent theories. Within the systemic-transcendent type, the authors distinguish three potential theories: a systemic-transcendent social theory, a systemic-transcendent moralistic theory, and a systemic-transcendent disintegrative theory. Against each of them, however, the authors find serious disqualifying arguments, which eventually makes them argue that the answers to the research question posed above should be sought among system-inherent theories.
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Artykuł stara się odpowiedzieć na filozoficznoprawny problem leżący u podstaw kontynentalnych teorii kryminalizacji, tj. jakie racje stoją za ustanowieniem przez ustawodawcę określonego katalogu dóbr chronionych przez prawo. By odpowiedzieć na to pytanie, autorzy wpierw zarysowują to, co charakteryzuje kontynentalne teorie kryminalizacji (w opozycji do anglosaskich), a następnie prezentują dwa podstawowe typy teorii uzasadniających wybór przez prawodawcę dóbr prawnych: systemowo-inherentne i systemowo-transcendentne. W ramach typu systemowo-transcendentnego autorzy wyróżniają trzy potencjalne teorie: systemowo-transcendentną koncepcję społeczną, systemowo-transcendentną koncepcję moralistyczną i systemowo-transcendentną koncepcję dezintegracyjną. Przeciw każdej z nich znajdują jednak poważne argumenty dyskwalifikujące, co sprawia, że ostatecznie opowiadają się za tym, iż odpowiedzi na postawione wyżej pytanie badawcze należy szukać pośród koncepcji systemowo-immamentnych.
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On the need to really criminalize corruption in the private sector The article refers to the criminalization of corruptive behaviours in the private sector. It contains a thesis that Art. 296a of the Penal Code does not fulfil the requirements set forth in the international and EU law, as it constitutes an offence of economic corruption, covering corruptive behaviours undertaken both in the private and the public sectors. The aim of the article is to critically analyse the current wording of Art. 296a PC in the light of the international and EU law, as well as to formulate a de lege ferenda proposition of a new wording of this provision, which would finally penalize all corruptive behaviours in the private sector and at the same time put the Polish law in compliance with the international standards.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest zagadnieniu kryminalizacji zachowań korupcyjnych w sektorze prywatnym. Postawiono w nim tezę, że art. 296a k.k. nie realizuje zaleceń wynikających z prawa międzynarodowego i prawa UE, bowiem odnosi się do korupcji w obrocie gospodarczym, obejmującej zachowania podejmowane zarówno w sektorze prywatnym, jak i publicznym. Celem artykułu jest krytyczna analiza aktualnie obowiązującego kształtu art. 296a k.k. w świetle prawa międzynarodowego i prawa UE oraz sformułowanie propozycji de lege ferenda nowego brzmienia tego przepisu, które umożliwiłoby w końcu penalizację wszystkich zachowań korupcyjnych mających miejsce w sektorze prywatnym oraz jednocześnie pełne dostosowanie polskiego prawa do wymogów międzynarodowych.
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Arguments referring to natural law, (public) morality, religion or Christian values are very often put forward in debates on the existing or planned criminal law provisions criminalizing specific behavior. A prohibition on behavior contrary to the scriptures or the teaching of the Church on pain of criminal penalties encompasses not only abortion, but also euthanasia, (paid) surrogate motherhood, paid donation of organs for transplantation, sterilization, contraception, prostitution and bigamy. The arguments presented for the protection of Christian values are oftentimes correlated with the protection of human dignity. This article seeks to address the issue whether such a "pre-legislative" measure (reliance on the protection of Christian values) is a form of penal populism. Parliamentary and non-parliamentary discussions conducted during work on the particular provisions of the Criminal Code were form the basis for analysis, with particular emphasis placed on arguments in favor of criminalization of the aforementioned behavior. The findings were confronted with the concept of legal interest in criminal law and the concept of human dignity in the Polish legal system (and its place in repressive law). The said "religious values" and the need to protect them were subject to analysis conducted against this background and underpinned by the constitutional principle of proportionality of the limitation of human rights and freedoms. The operational tools were not only established definitions of populism, including penal populism, and a Weber’s ideal type, i.e. a set of empirically perceived properties of populist style and perspective, sometimes called "the populist syndrome." The ultimate objective of this article was to establish whether the cases under analysis involve religious populism or a rational decision on criminalization.   W toku debat nad istniejącymi lub projektowanymi przepisami prawa karnego, kryminalizującymi konkretne zachowania, niezmiernie często przywoływane są argumenty odwołujące się do prawa naturalnego, moralności (publicznej), religii czy wartości chrześcijańskich. Zabronienie pod groźbą kary zachowań sprzecznych z pismem świętym lub z nauczaniem Kościoła tyczy już nie tylko aborcji, ale też eutanazji, (odpłatnego) macierzyństwa zastępczego, odpłatnego dawstwa organów do transplantacji, sterylizacji, antykoncepcji, prostytucji, bigamii. Przywoływana przy tym argumentacja ochrony wartości chrześcijańskich jest często skorelowana z ochroną godności ludzkiej. W pracy podjęto próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy taki zabieg „prelegislacyjny” (powoływanie się na ochronę wartości chrześcijańskich) jest formą populizmu penalnego. Podstawą analizy stanowiłydyskusje (parlamentarne i pozaparlamentarne) toczone w trakcie prac nad konkretnymi przepisami kodeksu karnego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem argumentacji na rzecz kryminalizacji przywołanych zachowań. Ustalenia te zostały skonfrontowane z jednej strony pojęciem dobra prawnego w prawie karnym, z drugiej – z pojęciem godności ludzkiej w polskim systemie prawa (i jego miejsca w prawie represyjnym). Na tym tle ulokowano tytułowe „wartości religijne” i potrzebę ich ochrony. Zaś fundamentem tych rozważań stała się konstytucyjna zasada proporcjonalności ograniczania praw i wolności człowieka. Narzędziami operacyjnymi były nie tylko wypracowane definicje populizmu, w tym populizmu penalnego, ale także pewien weberowski typ idealny, czyli zestaw empirycznie postrzegalnych właściwości stylu i perspektywy populistycznej, określany czasem mianem „syndromu populistycznego”. W ostateczności, sformułowana została odpowiedź na pytanie – czy w omawianych przypadkach mamy do czynienia z religijnym populizmem czy racjonalną decyzją kryminalizacyjną.
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Arguments referring to natural law, (public) morality, religion or Christian values are very often put forward in debates on the existing or planned criminal law provisions criminalizing specific behavior. A prohibition on behavior contrary to the scriptures or the teaching of the Church on pain of criminal penalties encompasses not only abortion, but also euthanasia, (paid) surrogate motherhood, paid donation of organs for transplantation, sterilization, contraception, prostitution and bigamy. The arguments presented for the protection of Christian values are oftentimes correlated with the protection of human dignity. This article seeks to address the issue whether such a "pre-legislative" measure (reliance on the protection of Christian values) is a form of penal populism. Parliamentary and non-parliamentary discussions conducted during work on the particular provisions of the Criminal Code were form the basis for analysis, with particular emphasis placed on arguments in favor of criminalization of the aforementioned behavior. The findings were confronted with the concept of legal interest in criminal law and the concept of human dignity in the Polish legal system (and its place in repressive law). The said "religious values" and the need to protect them were subject to analysis conducted against this background and underpinned by the constitutional principle of proportionality of the limitation of human rights and freedoms. The operational tools were not only established definitions of populism, including penal populism, and a Weber’s ideal type, i.e. a set of empirically perceived properties of populist style and perspective, sometimes called "the populist syndrome." The ultimate objective of this article was to establish whether the cases under analysis involve religious populism or a rational decision on criminalization.
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The article discusses the issues of justification of criminalization of complicity in another person’s suicide in the context of the protection of the legal interest, which is human life. The author also looks at conditions that validate the functioning of a provision that stipulates criminal liability for complicity in an act whose disposer waives the protection of his own legal interest. It is concluded that a person who attempts on their own life does not attack a legally protected interest, because human life should not be referred to as a legal interest in this person’s relation to their own life. However, human life remains a legal interest in erga omnes relations, irrespective of whether we refer to a person wanting to annihilate their own life. As a result, it is assumed that criminalization of the offence described in Art. 151 of the Polish Criminal Code cannot be questioned with reference to arguments based on the legal interest.
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W artykule poruszono zagadnienie uzasadnienia kryminalizacji współudziału w targnięciu się przez inną osobę na własne życie w kontekście ochrony dobra prawnego, jakim jest życie człowieka. Rozważono, pod jakimi warunkami uzasadnione może być funkcjonowanie przepisu przewidującego karalność za współudział w czynie, którego dysponent zrzeka się ochrony własnego dobra prawnego. Stwierdzono, że osoba dopuszczająca się zamachu samobójczego nie atakuje dobra chronionego prawem, gdyż nie należy mówić o życiu człowieka jako dobru prawnym w relacji danej osoby do jej własnego życia. Życie człowieka pozostaje jednak dobrem prawnym w relacjach erga omnes, niezależnie od tego, czy mowa o człowieku dążącym do unicestwienia swojego własnego życia. Przyjęto w rezultacie, że kryminalizacja przestępstwa opisanego w art. 151 k.k. nie może być kwestionowana z odwołaniem się do argumentacji bazującej na dobru prawnym.
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W artykule poddano analizie nowe zjawisko społeczne, jakie pojawiło się w związku z powstaniem tzw. kryptowalut. Tym zjawiskiem jest tzw. praktyka (proces) Initial Coin Offering (ICO), polegająca na wytworzeniu nowej kryptowaluty lub tzw. tokenu, które następnie są dystrybuowane zainteresowanym nabywcom w celu pozyskania funduszy na działalność inwestycyjną. W artykule podkreślono, że z jednej strony praktyka ICO umożliwia zgromadzenie ogromnych funduszy w krótkim czasie, z drugiej strony, będąc działalnością nieregulowaną, jest podatna na wykorzystywanie przez oszustów. Istota ICO, a szczególnie fakt, że może być ona łatwo wykorzystana do pokrzywdzenia tysięcy inwestorów, prowadzą do wniosku, że ta działalność powinna być uregulowana. Wobec braku w istniejącym systemie prawnym przepisów określających warunki i tryb prowadzenia ICO celem rozważań zawartych w artykule była odpowiedź na pytanie, czy istnieją przepisy, które pozwalają de lega lata sankcjonować przeprowadzanie ICO. Analizie poddano art. 286 k.k,. art. 171 ust. 1 prawo bank., art. 178 ObrInFinU i art. 99. OfPublU, które stanowią podstawowe przepisy karne wykorzystywane do zwalczania bezprawnego pozyskiwania środków finansowych z rynku kapitałowego. Dogmatyczna analiza ww. artykułów prowadzona w kontekście naczelnych zasad prawa karnego prowadzi do wniosku, że w aktualnym stanie prawnym organizatorzy ICO mogę podlegać jedynie odpowiedzialności z art. 286 kk W sytuacji, kiedy proces ICO nie jest prowadzony z zamiarem pokrzywdzenia inwestorów, wskazane wyżej pozakodeksowe przepisy karne nie mogą być stosowane wobec organizatorów ICO. Powodem niemożności zastosowania analizowanych czynów zabronionych jest ich ustawowy opis, który powoduje, że pozyskiwanie kryptowalut jak też rozprowadzanie tokenów nie wyczerpuje ich znamion. W ocenie autora jest to istotna luka normatywna, która powinna być usunięta w drodze nowelizacji.
EN
The new social phenomenon which appeared with regard to the creation of cryptocurrencies was analyzed in the article. This phenomenon is the so-called practice/process of Initial Coin Offering. ICO involves creating new cryptocurrencies or the so-called token which are further distributed to the purchasers in order to get funds for new investments. In the article it has been highlighted that, on the one hand ICO enables getting a lot of money in a short period of time, on the other hand, due to the lack of regulation ICO is prone to different scams and frauds. The fact that ICO can be used to deceive a lot of investors leads to the conclusion that it ought to be regulated. Because of the lack of regulations in existing legal system specifying the conditions and way of conducting ICO, the aim of the article was to answer the question whether there are regulations which enable de lega lata to sanction ICO. Article 286 of the Polish Criminal Code, Article 171, Section 1 of the Banking Law Act, Article 178 of the Financial Instruments Trading Act and Article 99 of the Public Offering Act were analyzed. They are basic criminal law provisions which are used to fight unlawful capital market funds gaining. Dogmatic analysis of the above-mentioned Articles conducted within the provisions of criminal law shows that in existing legal system the organizers of the ICO can be liable to prosecution pursuant to Article 286 of the Polish Criminal Code. When the process of ICO is not aimed at deceiving investors, the none-code criminal law provisions cannot be applied to the ICO organizers. The reason that the analyzed prohibited acts cannot be used is statutory framework. Cryptocurrencies acquisition and tokens distribution do not fulfill the criteria of a prohibited act. In the opinion of the author this is a huge loophole in legal system that ought to be closed by means of legislative revision.
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