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“Cruelty” as a qualified hallmark of the crime of murder and rape

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Brzezińska J.

Nowa kodyfikacja prawa karnego

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2015

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tom 38

37-50

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This article is dedicated to the determination of the nature and intensity with which the attribute of the “particular cruelty” can manifest itself in the design of the aggravated crimes of homicide and rape. The analysis of the indicated attribute undoubtedly constitutes numerous difficulties in the interpretation of the doctrine of criminal law, which relate, in particular, to the right assessment in terms of the intensity of its occurrence towards the victim. In order for the murder or rape to retain its aggravated nature, the perpetrator’s behaviour must demonstrate not only average, but atypically reprehensible, or even bestial cruelty. In this context, the only method that allows the presentation of an in-depth characteristics of the indicated attribute is taking into account all forms of the perpetrator’s behaviour, the attributes of the aggravated crime of murder or rape in the qualified type that accompany the implementation phase (methods, means, effects, period of inflicting suffering, victim’s status).

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Chloroform – źródło strachu, czy narzędzie niebezpieczne i substancja narkotyczna

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Prabucki R.

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nr 1

100-108

EN

This study attempts to assess the social and legal risks associated with the use of chloroform for purposes outside the medical industry and beyond. For this purpose, there have been complied the facts of the inhaled intoxicating substances from various fields of life and various kinds of criminal cases in this piece of work. It also includes some of the issues that pose problems to investigators and forensic specialists. The author also tries to draw attention to the rarely addressed questions of the role of the Internet and emerging on the Web cyberculture in the promotion and dissemination of data on chloroform thus creating visions incompatible with the notion of truth of usuage of the substance. Finally, the problem of the availability of chloroform has been taken up and the role of the Internet in this case.

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Kara śmierci w trybie doraźnym (sprawa IVK dor. 24/83 w Sądzie Wojewódzkim w Warszawie)

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Rzepliński A.

Archiwum Kryminologii

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2008

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nr XXIX-XXX

905-943

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Zabójstwa w Polsce w latach 1951–1971 oraz sprawcy zabójstw w świetle akt sądowych (streszczenie wyników badań)

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Janowska H.

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nr VI

179-187

EN

Summary of the Investigation This study is devoted to an analysis of homicide in Poiand during the 20 years 1951-1971 as compared with the pre-war period. This part of investigation is based on data taken from the police and prosecutor’s office statistics from before the war and for the years 1951-1971. The analysis deals also with the court records’ data on 308 offenders convicted for homicide throughout the country in the year 1961. The offenders represented almost all the persons convicted during that year for crimes covered by Arts. 225, paras 1 and 2 of the Penal Code of 1932. As many as 75 per cent of them were convicted for committed and 25 per cent for attempted homicides. The incidence of homicide was during the pre-war period more than five times that during the 25 years after the war. The social reasons for this phenomenon undoubtedly involve the important socio-economic and cultural transformations which have taken place in the country since the war. The diminished frequency of acts of homicide was brought about by changes in the social structure, an increase in the range of values made universally accessible, a rising level of culture and education, and changes in certain behavioural patterns. As between pre-war times and the last few years, a significant dynamic aspect in the territorial distribution of homicide has been noticeable; fundamentally, this is a change in the trend of dependence between the rate of homicide and the level of industrialization and urbanization. In the years 1935-1937, this dependence was negative, the greatest rate of homicide being recorded in the economically backward regions of eastern and southern Poland. In the years 1956-1962, this dependence persisted but at the same time the highest coefficient of homicide was noted in areas with an extremely high level of industrialization. In the years 1963-1965 there was an interdependence between the homicide rate and the low level of industrialization and urbanization; the highest coefficient of these crimes appears at that time in voivodeships marked by a high ‒ or an extremely low ‒ level of industrialization and urbanization. In recent years, 1969-1971, the dependence between the homicide rate and the low level of industrialization and urbanization further decreased, but the dependence of the high coefficient of homicide on the high level of industrialization became still more obvious. The highest homicide rate before the war in markedly agricultural areas of what was then called Poland “B” is to be linked with, above all, the influence exerted by such factors as: low level of economic development of these regions, low level of culture and education, the local type of social bonds, favouring ‒ in the then existing conditions ‒ lynch law, the spread of models called “subculture of aggression”. The fact that after the war (with a coefficient of homicide less than one-fifth of the former) a relatively higher coefficient of homicide remained unchanged in the eastern voivodeships is to be connected, above all, with residues of the pre-war situation which were of a cultural nature and whose influence ‒ because of the urbanization of rural culture ‒ was expected to diminish. This hypothesis finds confirmation in the results of the analysis of statistitical data for the years 1956-1971 related to the dynamic changes in the territorial distribution of homicide. Analyzing the reasons for a greater homicide rate in the western voivodeships, and even of tendencies indicating increase in the homicide coefficient in these areas, primarily taken into account should be the enormous intensification of social migration processes and the rapid rate of industrialization and urbanization of these regions. As regards the first of these factors, it should be borne in mind that the coefficient of homicide in the various voivodeships is greater in voivodeships with a higher percentage of people frorn those areas of Poland which before the war were known for a high coefficient of the crime of homicide. In conditions inevitably giving rise to social frustrations, there is an increased probability of homicide by people with certain psycho-social features. It should be emphasized that the offenders examined were in the majority of cases individuals marked by serious personality disorders and not having had even primary school education or any professional qualifications. Not without significance seems to be the fact that the overwhelming majority of such came from environments where aggressive behavioural patterns had been widespread. The indirect influence of social factors on the frequency of homicide seems to be insignificant in the case of people who commit such a crime in states of mind definable as psychotic, giving rise to irresponsibility. This assumption found confirmation in data from some other countries indicating that during a period when there is an increase in homicide, no increasing number of homicides by mentally ill people is to be observed. There seems, however, no doubt as to the influence of factors of a social nature on homicide by people who are not mentally sick but suffer from psychic anomalies. Among offenders examined by court psychiatrists (70.4% of the total in the court record material studied) 69.8 had psychic anomalies of various kinds; this fact is to be connected with their difficulties in social adjustment as well as with violent, extremely aggressive reactions to frustrating situations. Analyzing by comparison with the years before the war, the structure of motives for homicide, on the basis of court records, it was found that in the categories of motives differentiated in pre-war works by P. Horoszowski, the following changes have taken place as regards the number of convictions for homicides with given motives. The annual number of convictions for homicide with economic motives decreased five times (by approximately 300 cases); homicides for erotic motives less than two and a half times (by approximately 100); in defence of honour and person ‒ five times (by over 500); and infanticide ‒ also five times (by about 70). Examining the structure of motives for homicide ‒ i.e., the proportional share of convictions appropriate to the various categories ‒ it was found that the number of convicted offenders decreased by 7% as regards economic motives and defence of honour and person, and increased by about 14% in the category of homicides with erotic motives, while the percentage of convictions for child murder remained in the general structure of motives unchanged. Although the results of research on court records of one year are in principle insufficient as a basis for generalization in regard to a longer period of time, nevertheless we feel justified in generalizing the basis of statistical data supplied by the police. Such data enables the statement that there is a similarity between the average annual number of cases of homicide in the various categories of motives for the years 1962-1964 and 1968-1970. Since, moreover, the all-over number of cases of homicide for those years also reveals similarities, it may be concluded that the structure of motives for homicide in those periods was relatively stable. Changes in the structure of motives for homicide since the war period may, as compared with the pre-war period be attributed primarily to the changes in the structure of classes and strata in Poland and to changes in the hierarchy of socially accepted values. The typology of motives for homicide followed F. Horoszowski’s typology, which served as a basis for analysis of court records before the war but had to be extended for the purpose of this work. An effort has been made to find out whether offenders prompted by different motives differ essentially in respect to socio-demographic and psycho-social features. It was found that offenders, whether prompted by economic or erotic motives, or acting in defence of their personal dignity, etc., did not differ essentially as regards the features indicated above. But such differences can be observed when in the grouping of cases account is taken of, in addition to the motive for a crime, the objective situation on the background of which such motive took shape. Typotogy of the material examined, developed as indicated, led to the establishing of the following groups: (1) homicide in defence of personal dignity, arising out of a serious, developing conflict between the offender and the victim (26 cases); (2) homicide in defence of personal dignity, arising from a momentary, trivial conflict caused by the insobriety of the offender (40 cases); (3) homicide in defence of personal dignity during a brawl arising out of a trivial, passing conflict, caused by the insobriety of the offender (21 cases); (4) homicide for erotic reasons, arising out of the victim’s failure to satisfy the slayer’s emotional expectations (excluded are marital conflicts, caused by the slayer-husband’s alcoholism) ‒ 32 cases; (5) homicide with erotic motives connected with marital conflict, arising out of the slayer-husband’s alcoholism (32 cases); (6) homicide with erotic motives, to eliminate someone who constituted an obstacle to the offender’s realization of a plan to marry (18 cases); (7) homicide with economic motives arising out of claims to property (36 cases); (8) homicide with economic motives with intent to rob (29 cases); (9) homicide in self-defence or in defence of intimates (27 cases); (10) homicide to eliminate a witness to another crime committed by the offender (6 cases); (11) child-murder, as a rule of illegitimate infants, for various motives (23 cases), (a) by women (17 cases), (b) by men (6 cases); (12) homicide with pathological motives, arising out of a pathological reaction to intoxication (12 cases); (13) murder with pathological motives, arising out of a pathological way of achieving sexual satisfaction (6 cases). Note that the homicide category with the largest number of cases is that in defence of personal dignity (over 28%), including homicide for trivial reasons, a momentary confiict, arising out of the slayer’s being intoxicated (in police statistics such homicides figure as “hooligan”' killings; in literature ‒ often as “homicide arising from alcoholic motive”). Of the total of slayers examined, 90% were men. Of those ‒ 51% were under 30 years of age, and of female slayers ‒ 47%. 41% of male and 61% of the female offenders were single. From among male offenders 60% of them lived in the countryside, and from among female ones ‒ 63%. As many as 58% of offenders of both sexes had failed to complete primary school education (56% of men and 72% of women). Only 7% of the male and 9% of the female offenders were white collar workers. Analysis of the symptoms of social degradation among homicidals, showed that in only half of the cases was there evidence of intensification of such symptoms, which appearing together, indicated previous social deviance of the individual. Thus among the examined men 43% had already been tried for previous criminal offences before they were convicted of homicide; 22% of the total had been convicted once, 11% ‒ twice, and only 10% three times or more (among women there was not a single case of having 3 prior convictions). As to the structure of previous offences, it was found that there was a predominance (54.5%) of offences involving theft; 23% were offences combined with physical aggression, but of these only 17 out of a total of 75 could be considered serious (four involving manslaughter, 1 a brawl ending fatally, 5 serious bodily injuries, and 7 robberies). 58% of the total of homicidals systematically drank alcohol to excess (large quantities at least several times a week) and 68% of offenders were under the influence of alcohol at the moment of the crime. Alcohol is undoubtedly a very significant factor in the etiology of homicide; it plays an essential criminogenic role, especially as regards the very frequent cases in which an intoxicated offender simultaneously had serious disorders of personality. Data concerning recurrence of aggressive behaviour by offenders prior to the homicide were found in the court records of 65% of the cases; 60% of these received adverse references from their places of residence or of work. Only 20% did not work during the period preceding the homicide. The data given above show that not all homicidals reveal features indicating previous social maladjustment. In this connection, an examination was made of the correlation between certain psycho-social features o the criminals and the motives which prompted them to homicide. A statistical analysis, on the basis of which groups of the most strongly correlated variables were formed enabled further typology of groups of homicides differentiated according to motives. The principle of this typology was the connection between certain groups of homicides and the syndromes of psychosocial features, considered negative or “positive” from the point of view of social evaluation. Groups most strongly correlated with syndromes of negative features thus included individuals who had committed such crimes as: homicide with intent to rob; homicide in defence of own dignity arising out of a trifling, momentary conflict caused by the insoberity of the offender, homicide for erotic motives arising out of conflict caused by the offenderhusband’s alcoholism, homicide arising out of the offender’s pathological reaction caused by alcohol. It was found that the groups of offenders most markedly correlated with the “positive” syndrome of psycho-social features from the point of view of social evaluation were: homicide occurring in defence of personal dignity; arising out of a seriously gnowing conflict between slayer and victim; homicide with erotic motives aimed at the elimination of someone regarded as an obstacle to the realization of an offender’s plans to marry; homicide with economic motives arising out of claims to property; homicide in self-defence; child-murder committed by women. Of interest is the fact that in the light of court records a considerable majority of slayers (approximately 80%), men as well as women, committed homicide under the influence of strong negative emotional states, prolonged and belonging to affective experiences of the type frequently qualified in criminology and psychopathological literature as “states of continuous affect”. Only in about 10% of homicides did the records not reveal any intensified emotional stress on the part of the slayers – neither in the form of prolonged emotional stress nor in the form of marked exasperation arising directly before the homicide and caused by the victim’s aggressive, provocative behaviour. A mere 17% of the cases examined could be considered homicide “with malice aforethought”; this also includes homicide committed under considerable affect. The courts considered onry14.5% of the total of offenders to have committed their crimes “under the influence of strong emotion”, and applied para. 2, Art. 225 of the penal code (of 1932). Note that in the years 1961-1965 the courts invoked para. 2, Art. 225 of the penal code in connection with – annual average – only 14.7% of the total of individuals convicted of homicide, and in the years 1966-1971 in connection with a bare 10.3%. But during the pre-war years 1934-1937, of all cases of homicide, an average of 49% were considered by the court as having been committed under the influence of strong emotion. Data from the records examined as regards homicide victims are very scant and incomplete. Thus this work took into account only information related to the connections between the offender and victim and such features as: sex, age and state of sobriety at the time the offence was committed and also data contained in opinions given about the victims. It is of some interest that such features of the victims differed, depending on whether the offender was a man or woman. Close relatives constituted as much as 53% of the total of victims of female offenders and only 9% – of the males. On the other hand, there was marked similarity as regards the percentage of husband or wife as victims, of the partner, lover or fiancé (fiancée). In the case of men this percentage amounted to 24%, of women – 21%. The percentage of more distant relatives as homicide victims was 10.4% for men and only 3% for women. The percentage of victims unknown to slayers was fon men – 13% and for women 12%. Entirely different as between the sexes of offenders was the percentage of their victims who were closer or more distant friends: for men – 43%, and for women only 12%. 60.4% of the victims of offenders (men and women) were men, 37% – women and 2.6% – children of both sexes. Consideration of the age of homicide victims showed that the average age of victims was slightly higher than the average age of offenders, being on an average around 35 years (children excluded). Approximately 45% of the victims were given unfavourable references and in 45.5% of the cases the victims were in a state of insobriety at the time the crime was committed. The undoubtedly important role played by the victim in provoking of some of the homicides could not be examined in this work, due to the lack in appropriate records of more detailed characteristic traits of the victims and the lack of analysis of the circumstances preceding the murder.

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Kto jest ofiarą? czyli o fenomenie samobójstw poagresyjnych

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Głuch K. , Gawliński A.

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nr 1

84-99

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"Dyadic death" called an expanded and post-aggresive suicide is the suicide made after the murder. Its essence boils down to the fact that the suicide is closely related to motivation and causation of the pre-made murder or assassination. It should be noted that the offender before the event decides to broaden the circle of people for whom death seems to him/her a necessity. The closest relations usually are selected in terms of emotional, i.e. family members or unrelated people with whom the offender linkes a bond. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, but the most common ones are severe mental disturbance, inability to rectify the requirements of life or life disappointment. In this article, the issue of "Dyadic death" was discussed in a comprehensive manner, showing all its aspects, both theoretical and practical. There were presented: characteristic elements of extended suicide, the most common motives of committing, the qualification of legal and criminal action, the examples of "Dyadic death" that took place in Poland and the number of expanded suicides committed in this country.

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Kryminologia kulturowa? Antropologia kultury jako przyczynek do rozważań nad problematyką zabójstwa w krajach anglosaskich

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Gradoń K.

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nr XXVIII

179-184

EN

The paper covers the issue of cultural and ethnological perspective in contemporary criminology. The author presents various theories that are currently developing worldwide, addressing the problem of the role of culture (in the anthropological sense of the word) and its influence on the aetiology of criminal behaviour, social reaction to crime, and creation of role-modelling in different societies. The presentation is focussed mostly on the cultural and criminological comparison of three countries the United States of America, Great Britain and Canada – and their homicide data. These countries, although seemingly similar in many ways when traditionally analysed in criminology, differ significantly in terms of murder – not only statistically, but also at a deeper and more complex historical level. The author describes these differences, arguing that the cultural approach to criminological issues is crucial in explaining violence. The last part of the paper focuses on case-study examples from all the three countries under discussion; this serves as an illustration to the author’s postulate of incorporating the ethnological studies and research into the system of criminology.

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Crime Scene as a Source of Information in the Process of Profiling the Unknown Perpetrator of Homicide

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Kagan K.

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tom 29

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nr 5

EN

This study is about the crime scene as a valuable source of information about modus operandi, motives and characteristics of the perpetrator of the homicide crime. Based on Polish and foreign literature, the author made attempts to present various concepts of the perception of the crime scene in the criminal profiling process, as well as to indicate the key elements of the behavior of the perpetrator of the homicide resulting from the manner of proceeding, which can be interpreted from the crime scene. The study also presents the basic assumptions regarding the construction of criminal profiles of unknown perpetrators of homicides, with particular emphasis on the dichotomous concept of division into organised and disorganised perpetrators and the possibility of making other conclusions as to the psychophysical characteristics of the perpetrators of homicides. Thus, it is a form of universal presentation of the problem and may be of interest, in particular, to law practitioners.

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Niniejsze opracowanie traktuje o miejscu zdarzenia jako cennym źródle informacji na temat sposobu działania, motywów oraz cech charakterystycznych sprawcy przestępstwa zabójstwa. Celem jest przedstawienie różnych koncepcji postrzegania miejsca zdarzenia w rozumieniu kryminalistycznym oraz wskazanie kluczowych dla procesu profilowania kryminalnego elementów zachowania sprawcy zabójstwa, dających się wyinterpretować z miejsca zdarzenia i umożliwiających wnioskowanie o cechach go wyróżniających. Powyższe zostało dokonane w oparciu o literaturę polską i zagraniczną. W artykule przedstawiono również podstawowe założenia dotyczące konstruowania profili kryminalnych nieznanych sprawców zabójstw, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem dychotomicznej koncepcji podziału na sprawców zorganizowanych i zdezorganizowanych oraz możliwości dokonywania innych wnioskowań co do cech psychofizycznych sprawców zabójstw. Tym samym artykuł stanowi formę uniwersalnego przedstawienia problemu i może być przedmiotem zainteresowania w szczególności praktyków prawa.

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Zabójstwo kryminalne w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie. Studium przypadku z zakresu stosowania niemieckiego wojennego prawa karnego

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Mielnik H.

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2023

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tom 75

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nr 2

183-206

EN

The article is a case study concerning the application of the Nazi’s special criminal law in the General Government during wartime, specifically the Juvenile Felons Ordinance of 4 October 1939. A detailed analysis of one criminal proceeding from the moment the police received information about the crime until the execution of the sentence is carried out. The case which was chosen for the present analysis was selected due to its specific character as it involved a double homicide (murder) committed by a juvenile offender whose victims were Jewish. The paper presents the practice of application of criminal law in the General Government, which was characterized by its expedited and simplified nature. It also highlights certain aspects of the law's ambiguity, the defendant's uncertain situation, and a lack of effective possibilities of defense. The development of Nazi criminal law veered towards perpetrator-based criminal law. The criminal law of Nazi Germany ruthlessly sentenced people to death and expanded its application.

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Artykuł stanowi studium przypadku stosowania specjalnego niemieckiego nazistowskiego wojennego prawa karnego w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie, a dokładnie rozporządzenia o ochronie przed młodocianymi zbrodniarzami. Dokonano w nim szczegółowej analizy jednego postępowania karnego od powzięcia informacji o przestępstwie przez policję aż do wykonania kary. Sprawa będąca przedmiotem analizy została wybrana ze względu na jej szczególny charakter. Dotyczyła bowiem podwójnego zabójstwa (morderstwa) o podłożu kryminalnym, dokonanego przez młodocianego sprawcę na żydowskich ofiarach. W artykule przedstawiono, jak wyglądała praktyka stosowania prawa karnego w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie, mająca charakter przyspieszony i uproszczony. Podkreślono kwestię niejasności prawa, niepewności sytuacji oskarżonego oraz braku możliwości skutecznej obrony. Rozwój nazistowskiego prawa karnego następował w kierunku prawa karnego sprawcy. Niemieckie prawo karne stosowało bezwzględnie karę śmierci albo rozszerzało jej stosowanie.

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Kształtowanie się pojęcia zabójstwa w polskim i rosyjskim prawie karnym. Wybrane aspekty

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Okulski M.

Roczniki Wydziału Nauk Prawnych i Ekonomicznych KUL

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2008

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tom 4

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nr 1

117-138

EN

The key to the statutory characteristics of homicide in both Polish and Russian criminal law lies in the establishing of the semantic domain of this specific legal notion, which, docketed in Polish and Russian legal order, is a thought model reproducing illegal acts committed intentionally resulting in homicide. However, the explicit legal notion of this crime came into only in the 20th century ultimately excluding the possibility of either ‘registering’ accidental manslaughter or suicide, penalized for centuries, into its scope. Although a ransom, a drastic social therapy in the form of a bloody retaliation or ius talionis constitute now only a historical evolution marks of the right to punish for the crime of murder, the essence of penalty as a reprisal for the crime committed has been intact. The description of homicide only in strict legal terms yielding to normative force and dogmatic conversion can not be completed. The way to its right comprehension lies in rejecting the dominant in Polish and Russian criminal law notion of variegating of the scope of the legal protection of life of individuals for human development stage.

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Ochrona karna prawa człowieka do życia w prawie polskim

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Wiak K.

Teka Komisji Prawniczej

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2018

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tom 11

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nr 2

475-493

EN

The article contains an overview of the Polish Penal Code regarding the protection of human life. The first part contains an analysis of the standards of protection of right to life, adopted in international law and in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The second part presents selected problems appearing in the legal qualification of a prohibited act as a homicide.

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Opracowanie zawiera omówienie regulacji polskiego Kodeksu karnego chroniących życie człowieka. W pierwszej części została zawarta analiza ponadustawowych standardów ochrony prawa do życia, wynikających z prawa międzynarodowego i Konstytucji RP. W części drugiej przedstawiono wybrane problemy pojawiające się przy kwalifikacji prawnej czynów zabronionych jako zabójstw. W artykule zwrócono szczególną uwagę na zagadnienie procesowego przypisania sprawcy zamiaru zabicia człowieka oraz znaczenie i wykładnię znamion kwalifikujących.

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Zabójstwo dziecka jako zagadnienie kodyfikacyjne w II Rzeczypospolitej

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Dworas-Kulik J.

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2023

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tom 75

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nr 2

7-25

EN

This article discusses the course of the codification works of the Criminal Law Section of the Codification Commission during the interwar period concerning the legal qualification of a criminal act as infanticide or child murder. The editorial records of the drafts of the 1932 Criminal Code adopted by the Criminal Law Section as well as the discussion on the subject which accompanied the codification works are subjected to analysis. The legitimacy of amending and unifying criminal regulations in the analyzed area is presented on the example of the archival records of the Piotrków Trybunalski Regional Court. The issue of the codification of child murder and infanticide during the Second Polish Republic period has not been hitherto discussed in the literature on the subject.

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W artykule został omówiony przebieg prac kodyfikacyjnych Sekcji Prawa Karnego Komisji Kodyfikacyjnej z okresu międzywojennego dotyczący kwalifikacji prawnej czynu zabronionego jako dzieciobójstwo lub zabójstwo dziecka. Analizą zostały objęte zapisy redakcyjne projektów kodeksu karnego z 1932 r. przyjętych przez Sekcję Prawa Karnego oraz towarzysząca pracom kodyfikacyjnym dyskusja na przedmiotowy temat. Zasadność nowelizacji i ujednolicenia regulacji karnych w analizowanym zakresie przedstawiono na przykładzie archiwalnych akt Sądu Okręgowego w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim. W dotychczasowej literaturze przedmiotu zagadnienie kodyfikacji zabójstwa dziecka i dzieciobójstwa w okresie II Rzeczypospolitej nie zostało omówione.

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Wykonywanie kary śmierci w czasach Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej – analiza wybranych przykładów

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Mogielnicka E. D.

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nr 2

341-372

EN

This text is devoted to selected issues related to adjudicating and carrying out the death penalty in the times of the Polish People's Republic. This penalty was allowed by the Penal Code of 1969. In the current Penal Code (i.e. the one from 1997), this penal sanction is not provided for. Therefore, the selected topic fits into the theme of the journal on the history of law and modern law with a clear historical context. Removing the death penalty seems to be a very big change when it comes to the Polish criminal law. The aim of the article is to familiarize the reader with the legal provisions regarding the death penalty in the times of the Polish People's Republic and the realities of its adjudication and execution. Thanks to the use of the research method consisting in the analysis of legal acts, the researchers found the answers to the following research questions: which crimes resulted in the death penalty, what legal acts provided for such a possibility, and what the procedure was like under the provisions of the Executive Penal Code of 1969. Further on, the researchers used the method of analyzing the literature on the subject. The sources included books and magazine articles on specific topics, documentaries, and Internet sources deemed reliable. The main part of the text is a criminological analysis of three selected criminal cases. They were considered the most interesting in the context of the discussed topic. The descriptions of the criminal Polish People's Republic are intended to supplement the theoretical information obtained by means of the two methods mentioned above. In addition, they will allow the reader to move to those realities.

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Niniejszy tekst został poświęcony wybranym zagadnieniom związanym z orzekaniem i wykonywaniem kary śmierci w czasach Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej. Karę tę dopuszczał kodeks karny z 1969 r. W obecnym kodeksie karnym (z 1997 r.) ta sankcja karna nie jest przewidziana. Dlatego też wybrany temat wpasowuje się w tematykę czasopisma dotyczącego historii prawa i prawa współczesnego z wyraźnym kontekstem historycznym. Usunięcie kary śmierci wydaje się być bardzo dużą zmianą, jeśli chodzi o polskie prawo karne. Celem artykułu jest przybliżenie Czytelnikowi przepisów prawnych dotyczących kary śmierci w czasach PRL oraz realiów jej orzekania i wykonywania. Dzięki zastosowaniu metody badawczej polegającej na analizie aktów prawnych, uzyskano odpowiedzi na pytania badawcze: za popełnienie jakich przestępstw można było orzec karę śmierci, jakie akty prawne przewidywały taką możliwość, a także jak wyglądała jej procedura w myśl przepisów kodeksu karnego wykonawczego z 1969 r. Wykorzystano również metodę analizy literatury przedmiotu. Wśród źródeł znalazły się książki oraz artykuły z czasopism dotyczące poszczególnych zagadnień, filmy dokumentalne, a także te źródła internetowe, które uznano za rzetelne. Główną część tekstu stanowi kryminologiczna analiza trzech wybranych spraw karnych. Uznano je za najciekawsze w kontekście omawianego tematu. Opisy kryminalnego PRL-u mają za zadanie uzupełnić informacje teoretyczne uzyskane za pomocą wspomnianych dwóch metod. Ponadto pozwolą Czytelnikowi przenieść się do tamtych realiów.

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Kształtowanie się pojęcia zabójstwa w polskim irosyjskim prawie karnym. Wybrane aspekty

63%

Okulski M.

Roczniki Wydziału Nauk Prawnych i Ekonomicznych KUL

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2008

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tom 4

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nr 1 Prawo

117-138

EN

The key to the statutory characteristics of homicide in both Polish and Russian criminal law lies in the establishing of the semantic domain of this specific legal notion, which, docketed in Polish and Russian legal order, is a thought model reproducing illegal acts committed intentionally resulting in homicide. However, the explicit legal notion of this crime came into only in the 20th century ultimately excluding the possibility of either ‘registering’ accidental manslaughter or suicide, penalized for centuries, into its scope. Although a ransom, a drastic social therapy in the form of a bloody retaliation or ius talionis constitute now only a historical evolution marks of the right to punish for the crime of murder, the essence of penalty as a reprisal for the crime committed has been intact. The description of homicide only in strict legal terms yielding to normative force and dogmatic conversion can not be completed. The way to its right comprehension lies in rejecting the dominant in Polish and Russian criminal law notion of variegating of the scope of the legal protection of life of individuals for human development stage.

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Przestępstwa przeciwko życiu i zdrowiu w świetle danych ze statystyk kryminalnych

55%

Habzda-Siwek E.

Archiwum Kryminologii

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2018

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nr XL

53-113

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The aim of the research presented in the article is to show the amount, structureand dynamics of the offences against life and health that are defined in Chapter XIXof the Polish Penal Code 1997. The article offers an analysis of the data on the of fencesagainst life and health based on the publicly available statistics for the years 1999–2016.In the analysed period, two main trends relating to the amount of crime shouldbe identified. The first, encompassing the years 1999 to 2003, was an upward trend,followed by a downward trend that accelerated in the second decade of this century.In fact, since 2011 there has been a general, spectacular and significant drop of crimein Poland, also including offences against life and health.For the purpose of the analysis, offences against life and health are divided intofour main categories: homicide, assault or battery, bodily injury and other crimes(not included in the above-mentioned categories). Based on the offences recorded bythe police in the years 1999–2003, the number of all offences against life and healthexceeded 35,000 in 2003. Then, the number of such offences was relatively stable (about31,000-32,000 per year) and has decreased to about 18,000 since 2011.Generally, over the analysed period, the number of offences in three of four catego -ries: homicide, assault and battery and bodily injuries, has shrunk several times. The onlyexception to the general trend relates to the offences under Art. 160 of Criminal Code(defined as “exposing a human being to an immediate danger of loss of life or bodilyinjury or impairment of health”) that is invoked, among others, in cases of parentalneglect, distribution of designer drugs or even as allegations of medical malpractice.The significant drop in crime during the second decade of the 21st century asksfor an explanation. The first possible reason for this is that a crime drop has beenobserved in many countries, seems to be a common and international phenomenonand, as such, it also applies to Poland. The second explanation, probably the mostimportant one, is that the crime drop in Poland has been due to the systemic changesin the recording of crimes.First of all, in 2013 a new police information system was introduced, which led tosome problems with making it compatible with the old one. In parallel, in the same year,a substantial change in the recording of juvenile delinquency was adopted. Accordingto the new methodology, offences committed by juveniles are recorded by the policeonly after juvenile courts confirm the fact that a juvenile has indeed committed a crime.The problem is that there is no rule that would oblige juvenile courts to give suchinformation back to the police. It could possibly have a strong impact on the statisticsof crime, especially regarding assault and battery and bodily injuries, as juveniles usedto be a significant group of individuals suspected of such crimes. To make it clear,the data about ascertained crimes in Poland do not include punishable acts committedby juveniles.Furthermore, the investigation and proceedings carried out by the prosecutor’soffices and entrusted to other competent bodies than the police are not includedin the official police data. It all means that, since 2013, the range of the police data hasbeen substantially limited and does not reflect incidence of crime in full.The third possible reason for the falling number of crimes is the effect of thedemographic processes. It should also be taken into account that the populationof adolescents in Poland is currently at the lowest level since World War II.The article discusses four main categories of the offences covered by Chapter XIXof the Penal Code.The category “Homicide” is not a simple one. It includes manslaughter (Art. 148§ 1), murder (Art. 148 § 2 describes different forms of such felony: killing withparticular cruelty, in connection with hostage taking, rape or robbery, for motivesdeserving particular reprobation, and also with the use of explosives). The PolishCriminal Code also has provisions relating to heat of passion manslaughter justifiedby the circumstances (Art. 148 § 4 of the Penal Code). According to the data recordingby the police, in the analysed period the number of homicide cases has decreased bymore than 50%!“Bodily injury” is a very broad category that also covers causing serious bodilyharm, which includes, among others, deprivation of sight, hearing, speech or the ability to procreate, or inflicting a serious crippling injury, an incurable or prolonged illness,an illness dangerous to life, a permanent mental illness, a permanent total or substantialincapacity to work in an occupation, or a permanent serious bodily disfigurementor deformation (Art. 156 § 1 of the Penal Code), stipulating a heavier penalty if theconsequence of an act is death (Art. 156 § 3 of the Penal Code) than for causinga bodily injury or an impairment to health other than specified in Art. 156 Penal Code(Art. 157 § 1 of the Penal Code). If the bodily injury or an impairment of health doesnot last longer than seven days, prosecution will be brought on a private charge. Overthe analysed period, most of these cases were qualified under Art. 157 of the PenalCode. The total number of bodily injuries has been slowly decreasing over the analysedperiod, reaching about 60% of the initial amount.“Assault and battery” (Ar. 158 and Art. 159 of the Penal Code) is also a verybroad category and includes brawling (the perpetrator who participates in a brawlis responsible for the complicity in the act that means an immediate danger to life ormay lead to a bodily injury) and battery, when the role of the victims and the offendersare clearly determined. Since 2011, the police data have shown a spectacular dropin the number of assault and battery – to one third of previously recorded cases. It isundoubtedly a side effect of the change in the algorithm of recording punishable actscommitted by juveniles.The conclusion is that the changes in the methodology of recording ascertainedcrime by the police have limited the range of available data on crime. Therefore, interpretingthe data on offences against life and health has now been made more difficult asthe punishable acts of juveniles are no longer included in the police information system.In such a situation, possible ways of gathering data on crime and their interpretation should be reconsidered.Moreover, there is an urgent need to develop and conduct criminological researchon offences against life and health.

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Kryminalistyczna analiza przyczyn śmierci Marilyn Monroe

51%

Jarecka J.

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2018

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tom 83

91-101

EN

In the article, the author has analysed the mistakes and omissions in the investigation of Marilyn Monroe’s death. How did she die? Was she murdered or was it a suicide? The paper is also the analysis of the psychological profile of the actress. The author has tried to recreate the circumstances of the actress’s last life moments. The answers to the above questions are not the main purpose of the work. It is rather an attempt to induce an analysis by its recipient.

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Autorka przeanalizowała błędy i zaniedbania popełnione w śledztwie dotyczącym śmierci Marilyn Monroe. W jaki sposób zmarła artystka? Czy było to zabójstwo czy samobójstwo? Badaczka odtworzyła okoliczności jej ostatnich chwil życia. Referat stanowi również analizę profilu psychologicznego aktorki. Praca nie zawiera gotowych odpowiedzi na postawione wyżej pytania, a raczej ma na celu skłonić odbiorcę do analizy.

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Współczesne metody poszukiwań ukrytych zwłok

51%

Trzciński M.

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2018

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tom 83

7-20

EN

Problems associated with searching for missing people are of complex nature. Police statistics clearly show that the number of people reported missing is increasing (in 2014 it exceeded 20,000 people). The etiological factors of the missing person are very diverse in nature and are not always associated with criminal activities. Human trafficking, kidnapping for a ransom and fights between criminal groups undoubtedly generate difficulty in specifying a group of people who are missing. We can also add victims of planned or accidental homicide, suicide, victims of accidents to the group of missing people. The aim of this article is the analysis of methods of searching for hidden corpses, both in urban areas and an open terrain, applied in criminalistics and forensic archaeology.

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Problemy związane z poszukiwaniem zaginionych osób mają charakter złożony. Statystyki policji wyraźnie wskazują, że liczba osób uznanych za zaginione wzrasta (w roku 2014 przekroczyła 20 000 osób). Uwarunkowania etiologiczne związane z zaginięciami mają bardzo zróżnicowany charakter i nie zawsze bezpośrednio dotyczą działalności przestępczej. Zjawisko porwań dla okupu, handlu ludźmi, porachunków grup przestępczych generuje trudną do bliższego określenia grupę osób uznanych za zaginione. Możemy również dołączyć do tej grupy ofiary planowanego lub przypadkowego zabójstwa, samobójstw, ofiary nieszczęśliwych wypadków oraz kataklizmów. Celem artykułu jest wskazanie na interdyscyplinarny charakter metod poszukiwania ukrytych zwłok zarówno na terenach miejskich, jak i otwartych, które stosowane są obecnie w kryminalistyce i archeologii sądowej.

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Orzeczenie o zmienionej poczytalności a charakterystyka demograficzna, rodzinna oraz występowanie uzależnienia od alkoholu u osób dokonujących zabójstwa lub ciężkiego uszkodzenia ciała w stanie upojenia alkoholowego zwykłego

51%

Sieradzka A. , Rabe-Jabłońska J.

Psychiatria i Psychologia Kliniczna

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2013

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tom 13

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nr 1

15-24

EN

Ethanol intoxication is commonly considered as a risk factor of a criminal offence. This study is an attempt to assess selected demographic data, family situation, and alcohol dependence in homicide offenders or a severe body injury in relation to a judgment of diminished criminal responsibility. The examined group consisted of 90 suspects in the public prosecutor’s investigation. The subjects underwent a six-week forensic psychiatry observation during 2004–2008 at the Forensic Psychiatry Unit in High Security Prison No in Łódź. Analysed retrospectively was the medical documentation collected during the forensic psychiatry observation, including available medical documentation and categorical forensic psychiatry observation opinions issued by two expert psychiatrists. According to the collected materials, it was established that in the performed study none of the offenders who during ethanol intoxication committed a homicide or a severe body injury was acknowledged to be criminally responsible. A greatly diminished criminal responsibility was significantly more frequently evaluated in the case of divorced subjects who were not witnesses to aggression in their families and were not punished with a court verdict. Among the subjects with a greatly diminished criminal responsibility the alcohol dependence was diagnosed much less frequently. Besides, the offenders with a greatly diminished criminal responsibility were older than those with a slightly diminished responsibility and evaluated as criminally responsible.

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Intoksykacja alkoholem etylowym jest powszechnie uznawana za czynnik ryzyka dokonania przestępstwa. W przeprowadzonym badaniu podjęto próbę oceny wybranych cech demograficznych, charakterystyki rodzinnej oraz występowania uzależnienia od alkoholu sprawców zabójstwa lub poważnego uszkodzenia ciała w odniesieniu do orzeczenia o zmienionej poczytalności. Grupę badaną stanowiło 90 osób podejrzanych w postępowaniu przygotowawczym prowadzonym przez prokuratora. Badani zostali poddani obserwacji sądowo-psychiatrycznej w latach 2004–2008 przez okres sześciu tygodni na Oddziale Obserwacji Sądowo-Psychiatrycznej w Zakładzie Karnym nr 2 w Łodzi. Analizowano retrospektywnie dokumentację medyczną zgromadzoną w czasie obserwacji sądowo-psychiatrycznej, w tym dostępną dokumentację lekarską oraz wydane przez dwóch biegłych psychiatrów kategoryczne opinie sądowo- psychiatryczne. Na podstawie zebranego materiału stwierdzono, że w przeprowadzonym badaniu u żadnego sprawcy dokonującego w stanie upojenia alkoholowego zwykłego zabójstwa lub poważnego uszkodzenia ciała nie orzeczono niepoczytalności. Poczytalność znacznie ograniczona istotnie częściej była opiniowana w przypadku osób rozwiedzionych, którzy nie byli świadkami agresji w rodzinie i nie byli karani w przeszłości wyrokiem sądu. Wśród badanych z orzeczeniem ograniczonej poczytalności w znacznym stopniu rzadziej rozpoznawano uzależnienie od alkoholu. Ponadto sprawcy z orzeczeniem znacznie ograniczonej poczytalności byli starsi od osób z orzeczeniem ograniczenia poczytalności w stopniu nieznacznym oraz od osób opiniowanych jako poczytalni.

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Cudzoziemcy jako sprawcy poważnych przestępstw w Polsce – raport z badań

51%

Woźniakowska-Fajst D.

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2016

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tom 10

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nr 1

44-56

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Artykuł przedstawia fragment raportu z najnowszej analizy statystyk przestępczości cudzoziemców (obejmującej lata 2000-2012). Podstawą raportu są statystyki Komendy Głównej Policji oraz Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości. Przestępczość cudzoziemców w Polsce charakteryzuje duża dynamika. Po 1989 r. przestępczość cudzoziemców w Polsce rosła aż do roku 1997, a od 1998 następuje widoczny spadek. Do roku 2006 spadek ten jest dość gwałtowny, a później następuje stabilizacja. Analiza statystyk cudzoziemców podejrzanych o popełnienie przestępstwa i skazanych za te czyny pokazuje, że obecnie w Polsce zagrożenie przestępczością obcokrajowców jest znikome. W latach 2004-2012 udział cudzoziemców w ogóle przestępczości wynosi nieco ponad 1%. Odsetek skazań za najpoważniejsze przestępstwa pozostaje jeszcze niższy.

EN

The article presents the fragment of the report on the latest analysis of the statistics of foreigner crime (2000-2012). The basis of the report are the statistics of the Police Headquarters and the Ministry of Justice. Foreigner crime in Poland is characterized by high dynamics. After 1989 criminality of foreigners in Poland increases until 1997, and since 1998 seriously declines. By 2006 this decline is quite rapid but later one can observe a stabilization. Analysis of the statistics of suspects and sentenced foreigners show that currently in Poland a threat of foreigner crime is insignificant. In the years 2004-2012, percentage of foreigners in the general number of suspects is just over 1%. The proportion of convictions for the most serious crimes remains even lower.

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Abortion in The Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy

51%

Czachorowski M.

Studia Gilsoniana

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2018

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tom 7

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nr 4

567-578

EN

The author discusses the problem of abortion. He defines abortion as a deliberate and immediate killing of a human being before birth; he distinguishes it from spontaneous miscarriage or a situation where the child is allowed to die without this being intended, where the death is the result of causes not dependent upon acting persons—abortus indirectus. In order to morally evaluate the act of abortion, the author considers both the ontic status of the conceived human being and the criteria usually used for the evaluation.

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„Humanizm ateistyczny” - zjawisko areligijne, antyreligijne czy religijne?

51%

Posacki A.

Roczniki Teologii Duchowości

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2013

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tom 5

127-149

EN

The aim of the article is to pose the multi-dimensional problem of atheism, which in various forms is opposed to faith and evangelization in the world. The author suggests that atheism is also a form of religion, from which a different possibility of polemics with atheism follows than in the case when it is only understood as a negation of God. Then a religious key is necessary to understand the multidimensional issue of atheism, which enables one to more efficiently oppose this ideology, as a tool of anti-evangelization in the world.