Editorial Board of the Archives of Criminology (Archiwum Kryminologii), the oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed Polish criminological journal, decided to prepare this special issue.
The criminological literature devoted to the con sequences of the political, economic, and social transition in Central and Eastern Europe has been steadily growing over the past thirty years. In our opinion, it may be well worth the effort to contribute to this literature with a collection of articles by several authors from Central and Eastern Europe presenting a Central and Eastern European perspective on selected issues regarding crime and crime control after the fall of communism. We feel that we are now able to present our readers with twelve interesting and high-quality papers that deal with various aspects of crime and crime control throughout the region during the last thirty years, and the current situation regarding these problems. The authors come from almost all countries in the region: Czechia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Serbia.
The topics span a comprehensive spectrum of topics, including: general quantitative and qualitative analyses of crime trends; general and specific problems of crime control, including specific forms of sanctions ranging from community-type sanctions to life imprisonment and the death penalty; specific types of crime, such as trafficking in human beings, violence against woman, and not paying maintenance for dependents; specific criminological perspectives, like research on criminal careers; and finally, the transformation of penitentiary systems.
Each paper brings a specific national background and perspective, while at the same time, all of them deal with the common experience of crime as a phenomenon that accompanies the process of transforming the fish soup of the authoritarian state and central planning back into the aquarium of liberal democracy, the rule of law, and freedomrs; and finally, the transformation of penitentiary systems.
Prof. Krzysztof Krajewski, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
Prof. Miklós Lévay, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Prof. Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Prof. Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Introduction 5
Prof. Yakov Gilinskiy
University of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia
Criminology and the criminal justice system in the Russian Federation
after socio-political transformation 9
dr. Milana Salmanovna Dikaeva
Herzen State Pedagogical University (Russia)
Penal policy in the Russian Federation: Trends and perspectives 23
Prof. József Kó
National Institute of Criminology (Hungary)
Crime statistics in Hungary, 1968–2017: What is shaping the trend? 45
Prof. Dr. sc. Oliver Bačanović
Assoc. Prof. Dr. sc. Angelina Stanojoska
University ‘St Kliment Ohridski’ (Macedonia)
Crime and criminality in the Republic of North Macedonia:
A general overview of the period 1991–2018 75
Dr. Konrad Buczkowski Dr. Paulina Wiktorska
Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Crime in the subsequent adult life of former juvenile offenders: Selected aspects of the impact of political transformation in Poland on a return to delinquency by adults who were juvenile delinquents
in the 1980s and 2000s 97
Dr. hab. Dagmara Woźniakowska-Fajst
Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
20 years on the path – the criminal careers of polish juvenile girls 117
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Dr. Petronella Deres Dr. Szandra Windt
National Institute of Criminology (Hungary)
The characteristics of trafficking in human beings
in Hungary and Romania 139
Dr. Magdalena Grzyb
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
‘We condemn abusing violence against women’: The criminalization
of domestic violence in Poland 163
Dr. Paweł Ostaszewski
University of Warsaw (Poland)
Transition in offences of not paying maintenance in Poland 185
Dr. Gabriel Oancea
University of Bucharest (Romania)
Dr. Mihai Ioan Micle
Romanian Academy (Romania)
The emergence of community control sanctions in the Romanian
sanctioning system 207
Mgr Joanna Klimczak Dr. Maria Niełaczna
University of Warsaw (Poland)
Extreme criminal penalties: Death penalty and life imprisonment
in the Polish penal and penitentiary system 225
Doc. dr. Jan Váně Dr. Lukáš Dirga
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czechia)
The prison chaplain as a part of penitentiary care? Transformation
of the Czech prison system after the fall of communism 253
List of reviewers in 2017–2020 271
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