<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The main aim of this article is to show one of the social trap of the Polish justice system. Using Mertonian category of 'unforeseen consequences' the authors show how the constellations of interests of the main social actors in Polish courts leads to far-from-optimal effects. Inside the system, judges, court staff, lawyers, defendants and others fall into the trap of unforeseen consequences. At the same time, from the macro-social perspective, the effects imply increasing fragmentation of society, instead of cohesion, for increasing which the whole judicial system is constructed.</p></abstract>

The main aim of this article is to show one of the social trap of the Polish justice system. Using Mertonian category of 'unforeseen consequences' the authors show how the constellations of interests of the main social actors in Polish courts leads to far-from-optimal effects. Inside the system, judges, court staff, lawyers, defendants and others fall into the trap of unforeseen consequences. At the same time, from the macro-social perspective, the effects imply increasing fragmentation of society, instead of cohesion, for increasing which the whole judicial system is constructed.

Incarceration as a result of the play of interests in the Polish judicial system

Research in Social Change

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The main aim of this article is to show one of the social trap of the Polish justice system. Using Mertonian category of 'unforeseen consequences' the authors...

Ranking	Title	Prison Population Rate
1	Russian Federation	397
2	Belarus	364
3	Turkey	288
4	Georgia	268
5	Azerbaijan	235
5	Lithuania	235
7	Moldova (Republic of)	212
8	Czech Republic	205
9	Latvia	195
9	Estonia	195
11	Poland	193
12	Slovakia	192
13	Albania	188
14	Montenegro	180
15	Hungary	173
16	Guernsey (United Kingdom)	165
16	Gibraltar (United Kingdom)	165
18	Ukraine	156
19	Serbia	154
20	United Kingdom: Scotland	143

Incarceration as a result of the play of interests in the Polish judicial system

Publié en ligne: 21 juil. 2021

Pages: 19 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rsc-2019-0002

© 2019 Bartosz Mika, Arkadiusz Peisert published by Sciendo

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Prison population rate in 2018 (top 20 jurisdictions in Europe)