This article refers to one of the most important institution in Polish Penal Code which is early conditional release as a part of probation. It is focused on the material circumstance of that institution which is positive criminological forecast. The aim of this article is to describe all the elements that have an influence on the criminological forecast and to decide if all of them are needed and if there is a chance to change the regulation to simplify them.
The study focuses on the issues of the professional participation of a court-appointed guardian for adults in the process of executing the penalty of restriction of liberty. The changes in the process of executing the penalty of restriction of liberty that have taken place over the last 20 years raise the following questions to which the answer should be found. How have the duties of a professional probation officer changed related to the execution of the penalty of restriction of liberty? What impact did the individual amendments to the Criminal Code and the Executive Penal Code of 1997 have on the tasks of a probation officer related to the execution of the restriction of liberty?
The article refers to the amendments introduced to regulations of Chapter IX of the Criminal Code which came into force on 1st July 2015The aim is to point out which of them are the most important in the process of imposition of aggregate penalty, how they create the new model of aggregate penalty as well as to consider whether they are reasonable.
The paper focuses on restraining measures regarded as one of a group of measures of society’s response to prohibited acts. Restraining measures were introduced into the Polish legal system by the 1932 Criminal Code. Since then the form of the measures has changed substantially, not only as a result of the entry into force of new criminal regulations but also as a result of amendments to criminal law, especially the one introduced by the Act of 20 February 2015 resulting in a remodelling of the system of restraining measures and rules of their application. An important task has also been to determine the meaning of the term restraining measures.
This article discusses the issue of conditional early release from life imprisonment. In the beginning, the author presents the characteristics of life imprisonment and the institution of conditional early release. Then, the author focuses on the changes introduced in the provisions of the Polish Penal Code regarding conditional early release from life imprisonment, pointing out the doubts and controversies related to them.
The study focuses on attempting to reproduce works on the applicable executive penal code. The act adopted in 1997 was created in the course of many years of discussion of an entire team of the most outstanding specialists. The study contains comments on detailed solutions and their modifications in the course of the Code. The authors point out the further need to improve the adopted solutions regarding the execution of penalties.
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