Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Poland

Konrad Buczkowski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology of Institute of Law Studies in the Polish Academy of Sciences and in the Department of Criminal Law of Institute of Justice, Ministry of Justice of Republic of Poland. His main subjects of professional interest are: economic crime, insurance fraud, money laundering, white-collar crime and cybercrime. He is a member of the European Society of Criminology and the Polish Society of Criminology.

Beata Czarnecka-Dzialuk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and at the Institute of Justice. Beata specialises in the problems of reacting to juvenile criminality and introducing restorative justice into the justice system, especially mediation in criminal and juvenile cases. Beata is a member of the Social Council for Alternative Methods of Solving Conflicts and Disputes at the Minister of Justice, the European Society of Criminology, the Polish Society of Criminology, and the Board of the European Forum for Restorative Justice.

Witold Klaus is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies in the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main subjects of professional interest are: migration and crime, hate crimes, victimization, relations between poverty and crime and juvenile delinquency. He is also interested in migration law, discrimination based on ethnicity, and migrants' integration in Poland. Witold Klaus is an executive director in the oldest Polish criminological journal - `Archives of Criminology', the Secretary of the Board in the Polish Society of Criminology, and the President of the Association for Legal Intervention. He is a member of the European Society of Criminology and the Polish Society of Criminology.

Anna Kossowska is Professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a Sociologist and Criminologist, and Head of the Department of Criminology at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Anna lectures in Criminology at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw, and is President of the Polish Society of Criminology. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of `Archiwum Kryminologii' (Archives of Criminology). Her main academic interests are: issues concerning the links between social change and criminality; the functioning of social control; crime prevention; and criminological theory. She is a member of the Polish Society of Criminology.

Irena RzepliA"ska is Professor of law and criminology in the Department of Criminology of the Institute of Law Studies in the Polish Academy of Sciences and in the Warsaw University. She is an author of research on deviance, self-report studies, crime and crime policy - historical and contemporary, foreigners criminality in Poland and, in the last years: youth crime - past and present. She teaches criminology and human rights at the Warsaw University in the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization. Irena RzepliA"ska is editor-in-chief of the oldest Polish criminological journal, `Archives of Criminology', and member of the European Society of Criminology and the Polish Society of Criminology. In the Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights - non-governmental organization - she is an expert in refugee and migrants law. From 2004, Irena RzepliA"ska is a Vice-Director in the Institute of Law Studies in the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Paulina Wiktorska is a lawyer and sociologist. She completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and currently works there as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology. She is a member of the European Society of Criminology, the Polish Society of Criminology and the Editorial Committee of `Ekonomika i organizacja przedsiAE (TM)biorstwa' (Economics and Organization of Enterprise). Paulina works with problems concerning criminal law and policy, especially criminal executory law, adolescent criminality, violence towards next-of-kin, and the sociology of law.

Dagmara WoA?niakowska-Fajst is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Chair of Criminology and Criminal Policy at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include victimology, harassment issues in an emotional context, deviant behaviour of juveniles and women, crime as presented in the media, and justice system policy. She is a member of the European Society of Criminology, the Polish Society of Criminology, and the Association for Legal Intervention.

Dobrochna Wojcik is Professor of Law and Doctor of Psychology, and she worked for the Department of Criminology, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1963-2007. Dobrochna Wojcik works at the Institute of Justice since 1992 and directed the Criminal Law and Criminology Section for several years. Research interests include juvenile criminality, aggression, examining victims of crime, and mediation issues. Dobrochna Wojcik co-founded the Group to Introduce Mediation in Poland, and is an academic consultant to the Polish Mediation Centre. Dobrochna Wojcik is a member of the Social Council for Alternative Methods of Solving Conflicts and Disputes at the Minister of Justice and the Polish Society of Criminology.