Introduction into Polish Criminal Law 2200-1CWPK76-ERA

During the classes on Introduction to Polish Criminal Law the following subjects will be analysed and discussed:

I. Historical Background
1. The Period between the Two Word Wars ( 1918 – 1939)
2. The Period 1944 -1989

II. The Penal Code of Democratic Poland
1. Conceptual Foundations of the 1997 Criminal Code
2. The General Principles of Liability
a. The Principle of Legality
b. Age limits
c. The Principles of Culpability
d. Forms of Committing Offences
e. Circumstances Excluding Liability
3. Responses to crime
a. Punishments
b. Penal Measures
4. Sentencing Principles
5. Sentencing Practices
6. Specific crimes.
III. Dealing with juveniles offenders In Poland– law of treatment of juveniles from 1982
IV. The liability of Legal Persons.