Abuse of Parental Responsibility by Criminal Law and Criminology

The purpose of the article is to show ways of abuse of parental responsibility, which take the form of crimes committed against a child. In the first part of the study, the author focused on the analysis of criminal law. Selected crimes were discussed bullying, abandonment of a minor, kidnapping of a minor and drinking of a minor. Further in the work, an analysis of statistical data was carried out, which was made available by the Police Headquarters and the Ministry of Justice. The analysis of these data allowed to show the size and dynamics of crimes committed to the detriment of children.

Shaping Facebook and Twitter Public Spheres: The Case of Swiss Franc Mortgage Holders in Poland

The article focuses on the online communication on Polish Facebook and Twitter around issues related to mortgage loans in Swiss francs. Based on 20k posts retrieved from both Facebook and Twitter, we found the most active actors and the most common topics appearing on those micro-public spheres. It was revealed that actors with institutional affiliation and those who are not affiliated discuss different problems and share dissimilar content related to Swiss franc debts. It was also found that certain categories of actors may influence online discussions on both social networking sites by promoting specific content in order to pursue their institutional interests. Finally, the diversity of topics and problems discussed by the two categories of actors identified on Facebook and Twitter suggest that Swiss franc mortgage holders are a good example of “connective action” with no clear identity or community traits that led to favourable judgment of the European Court of Justice.

What Does It Mean to "Deny Crimes"? Comments on the Background of Language Interpretation in Polish and Foreign Law in a Comparative Perspective

The main purpose of this article was the analysis of the term "to deny" in Slovak, German, Polish and French criminal law in a comparative and legal perspective. This analysis led to present the author’s concept of the the provision penalizing historical lies. The basic research method that was used in the article is a method based on the Kötz and Zweigert’s model, assuming five basic stages of legal and comparative analysis. The last two parts contain the main conclusions of the article.

Acting Career and its Determinants in the Social World of Professional Theater in Poland

The article is an attempt to answer the question about factors affecting the trajectory of an acting career. The author confronts the objective dimensions of a career with a subjective concept of success, clarified by the participants of the social world of theater themselves. The empirical basis of the work are free interviews conducted by the author with actors of Polish public drama theaters (in 2015–2017) and journalistic interviews with theater artists published in books and popular monthly magazines in the last two decades of the 21st century. All sources were subjected to qualitative content analysis. It shows that in addition to talent, which is the basis of an acting career, hard work is also important. The actors pay attention to personality aspects – charismatic people with a natural ability to attract attention have a greater chance of success. The cultural capital of the stage artist and social capital (the relevant role of linking artistic careers) are not without significance for the course of the acting career. Actors also say a lot about coincidence of events, but it is worth remembering that “you have to be good to be lucky”, you have to be more motivated and determined. The author also tries to answer questions whether awards actuate the course of acting career and whether migrations are an opportunity for creative progression.

The Formation and Transformation of Poles’ Mentality after 1989: An Analysis from the Perspective of Social Philosophy

The subject of article is transformation as a multilevel social phenomenon, experience of transformation and modernization of Polish society (in the period from 1989 to the present day, including the turning point of the reforms in 1999 and the context of Poland's membership in NATO and the EU) and changes in its mental characteristics. Mental qualities play one of the most important roles in the processes of social transformation: they have their share in shaping the perception and implementation of attitudes, correspond to values, established norms of behavior. At the same time, they can significantly complicate the rapid mastery of innovation (both consciously and subconsciously), because one of the main functions of mentality is to counteract violent revolutionary-reformist transformations and to promote paths of evolutionary cultural, social and other changes. The study of mental features should clarify which of them were helpful, and which rather the opposite – hindered at the stage of reforms and social changes and the creation of civil society. These considerations are based on the assumption that destructive mental traits are mainly associated with many years of subjecting Poland to the power of other countries, especially the Soviet Union, which led to negative state experiences, which in turn translates into a lack of liberal traditions and a low level of civic awareness of society. A very important task that Polish society faces is abandoning outdated Soviet behavior, increasing the level of responsibility and activity, mutual trust and cooperation, developing social activity, strengthening civil society, which is the engine of change and the controller of local and state self-government.

Influence of National Legal Regulations on the Development of the Level of Sanitary and Epidemiological Safety in Poland

Safety regulations are often highly general. They are a kind of idea addressed to the state authorities responsible for protecting an individual and shaping the level of a given security category. Sanitary and epidemiological safety is an extremely peculiar category of safety. Its policy will be to prevent the spread of infectious diseases among humans and animals and to ensure – through legal regulations and then appropriate action – improvement of sanitary conditions. The activities in this area are in a sovereign and inertia form, relying mainly on control and preventive actions. The considerations will revolve around legal measures aimed at guaranteeing sanitary and epidemiological safety. Current legal regulations affecting the level of this safety category will be analysed. Moreover, within the framework of this article, the sanitary condition of Poland will be presented in a comparative perspective for the years 2016–2018. The basis for consideration will be the reports of the Chief Sanitary Inspector on the sanitary condition of the country in a given year. This paper introduces graphs showing the presented data obtained from the survey of respondents. Legal measures have been analyzed from the point of view of their effectiveness and legitimacy of their existence in the legal reality.

Violence in the Family as a Social Threat to Public Safety and Order

Violence in the family should be considered as one of the biggest social problems in Poland. It occurs not only in families commonly regarded as pathological. Therefore, it should not be associated only with poverty or alcoholism or other addictions present in the family. Violence in the family exists also in affluent and seemingly happy families. The effects of this phenomenon cause many negative consequences not only for the members of the perpetrator's family, but also for society and, more broadly, the entire state organisation. This problem requires decisive action on the part of the state and certainly should not be underestimated. The aim of this article is to analyze selected legal regulations concerning the prevention of domestic violence and other issues essential from the point of view of the impact of issues essential from the point of view of the impact of domestic violence on the safety of individuals who experience it, as well as the general public. Therefore, the following will be analyzed: the relation between the use of violence in the family and violation of specific criminal law norms functioning in the Polish legal system, negative effects in the area of health of persons experiencing violence in the family, the scale of violence in the family in Poland and the difficulties connected with its precise determination and evaluation of this phenomenon by the Polish society.

Particular Complaints Concerning Cessation of Industrial Property Rights

In the present article the author analyses new institutions of civil law, ie. particular complaints concerning cessation of protection rights for a trade mark or registration rights for an industrial model. These complaints constitute a hybrid of mutual complaints and of cases concerning invalidation of protection rights for a trade mark or registration rights for an industrial model or declaration of expiry of protection rights for a trade mark. In the key part of the article the author presents lack of precision of new regulations concerning suspension of civil proceedings due to similar proceedings pending before the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. In this respect, the author presents the new regulations interpretation risk, which may lead to unnecessary lengthening of court proceedings in consequence infringing the constitutional principle of honest proceedings and the right to have your case recognized without unjustifiable delay. Besides, the author postulates such de lego ferenda change of regulations that the obligation to suspend civil proceedings will take place only, when the scopes of requests of the particular complaint and the request to the Patent Office will influence each other. At the end, the author presents issues of premises of registration capacity both trade marks and industrial models and premises for declaration of expiry of protection rights for a trade mark. In this respect he gives particular attention to the necessity for application by courts not only the regulations of the presently in force act Industrial property law, but also already repealed provisions of the said act as well as repealed other laws. The author explains that statutory conditions of registration capacity of industrial property rights should be applied according to laws in force at the date of application for protection of the given exclusive right.