CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN POLAND 2024-2025 (for ERASMUS+ students)
Criminal Justice System in Poland
Winter Semester 2024-2025, Thursdays, 13:15.-14:45, Krupnicza 33a (next to Auditorium Maximum), Green Auditorium (Sala Zielona);
The class of CJSP is offered to foreign ERASMUS+ program students (as well as DAAD and the like). Erasmus students affiliated outside of the Faculty of Law and Administration (for example: psychology, international relations, political science, sociology) are also welcome! It is not available to students of jednolite studia magisterskie.
We will be meeting in the Sala Zielona, Krupnicza 33a (Didactic Centre of the Law Faculty, next to the Auditorium Maximum building) on Thursdays, 13:15-14:45 (starting 3rd October).
The teachers are: Prof. Dr. Andrzej Światłowski, Prof. Dr. Adam Górski, Dr. Paweł Czarnecki and Dr. Sonia Głogowska.
This course is an introductory survey of the Polish criminal justice system with a view to its social and institutional context – its structure and functioning. It is focused on criminal justice process, namely: criminal procedure, judicial independence, courts and other agencies responsible for the criminal justice. The constitutional, European and international dimensions will also be addressed.
The course provides an overview of the criminal justice system, including: procedural criminal law, proof and evidence, elements of the substantive criminal law, police, public prosecutor office, courts and corrections. The emphasis will be placed on how the various institutions of criminal justice relate to each other and interact.
Criminal Justice System in Poland class covers the following topics:
General overview of the Criminal Justice System;
Sources of law; Constitutional dimensions;
International and European dimensions;
Basic principles of criminal procedure;
Criminality and delinquency, how to read the statistics
Gatekeepers of the system
Substantive criminal law and sentencing – main points of interest;
CJS agencies 1: Policja, Prokuratura,
CJS agencies 2: Adwokatura, Radcy prawni;
CJS agencies 3: The Criminal Courts and the judicial independence;
Preparatory procedure; Coercive measures;
Defendant
Evidence and proof;
Trial: ordinary procedure, simplified and consensual procedures;
Appellate system; Post-conviction procedures, miscarriages of justice;
Victim protection and mediation;
Juvenile law;
White collar and tax criminality;
Petty delinquency;
Prison system and the corrections;
Additional topic, if chosen by the Participants;
evaluation method: 40% written essay (2000-2400 words) + 60% multiple choice test
essay topics: the essay topics will be available in November
preferred referencing: OSCOLA
essay deadline: 20.01.2024. 12:00
test exam: after the classes 23th January
re-sit (in needed) 06.02, 11.30
(exceptional early option only for those absent in January – 19th December)
Please note, that probably there will be no classes on: 31st of October (the day before All Saints Day – a public holiday in Poland), and certainly on 26th of December (Xmas) and 2nd of January (the classes in January start on 7th).
Please feel invited!
Department of Criminal Procedure, JU Kraków