Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

Vol. 20 (2016)

Artykuły

The necessity for education about the causes of wrongful convictions

  • Daniel Mańkowski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52097/pwk.5553  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2023-06-07

Abstract

Wrongful convictions occur from the very beginning of the organized forms of criminal justice systems. Therefore, one of the main tasks should be to minimize the risk of their occurrence, as well as the creation of effective mechanisms of reparation. Despite the importance of this issues, neither comprehensive researches, nor necessary statistical data, are available to determine the prevalence of this phenomenon in Poland. It is accompanied by common believe of law practitioners about marginality or even
absence of wrongful convictions in Poland. There is therefore a necessity to educate law students about the sources and reasons of miscarriages of justice. To fulfill this need, a project entitled: “Innocence Project - preventing wrongful convictions”, aimed at promoting the issue of miscarriages of justice, has been created at Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw.

References

  1. Cassell R.G., Protecting the innocent from false confessions and lost confessions – and from Miranda, „The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology” 1998, nr 88(2) [Google Scholar]
  2. Chojniak Ł., Wiśniewski Ł., Przyczyny niesłusznych skazań w Polsce, Forum Obywatelskiego Rozwoju, Warszawa 2012. [Google Scholar]
  3. Ejchart M., Wolny M., Pomyłka sądowa – polska perspektywa, „Na Wokandzie” 2002, nr 14 [Google Scholar]
  4. Girdwyoń P., Pomyłki sądowe i ich przyczyny na przykładzie przestępstw seksualnych, w: Herbowski P. i in., Przestępstwa seksualne. Ujęcie psychologiczne, prawne i kryminalistyczne, Difin, Warszawa 2016 [Google Scholar]
  5. Górski A., Ejchart M., Wrongful Convictions in Poland, „University of Cincinnati Law Review” 2012, nr 80(4) [Google Scholar]
  6. Hieronymus; Seneca, Epistulae morales VI, 57, 12; Cicero, Orationes Philippicae 12, 2. [Google Scholar]
  7. Księga Rodzaju (18, 23─32). [Google Scholar]
  8. Mazur O., Niesłuszne skazania w Polsce w opinii prokuratorów i policjantów, „Palestra” 2012, nr 3─4. [Google Scholar]
  9. Pływaczewski E.W., Górski A., Sakowicz A., Wrongful conviction in Poland, w: Ronald Huff C., Killias M. (red.), Wrongful Conviction: International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice, Temple University Press, Philadephia 2008 [Google Scholar]
  10. Siedlecka E., Prawo prawa do błędu, „Gazeta Wyborcza” z 28 maja 2001 r. [Google Scholar]
  11. Sowa A., Przyczyny pomyłek sądowych, „Palestra” 2002, nr 1–2 [Google Scholar]
  12. Special Investigation: The High Costs of Wrongful Convictions, http://www.bettergov.org/news/special-investigation-the-high-costs-of-wrongful-convictions (dostęp z dnia 15.07.2016). [Google Scholar]
  13. Widacki J., Dudzińska A., Pomyłki sądowe. Skazania osób niewinnych przez sądy w Polsce, „Palestra” 2007, nr 11─12 [Google Scholar]
  14. Zenko M., Red Team – How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy, Basic Books, New York 2015. [Google Scholar]