<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<p>The material scope of the research problem in the text encompasses selected issues concerning the content and sense of the elements characterizing the offense of establishing contact with a minor via ICT systems and telecommunications networks (also referred to as “grooming”) under Polish criminal law. In the legislation currently in force the offense of grooming is criminalized under Art. 200a §1–2 of the Criminal Code. The main purpose of the analysis is to perform a substantive criminal examination of the offense of grooming under Polish law, taking into account a practical case study. The analysis contained in the text is chiefly an overview, and includes mainly an institutional and legal analysis performed with the aid of textual, functional and doctrinal interpretations, which have been supplemented with the author’s own conclusions and opinions concerning de lege lata and de lege ferenda solutions. The institutional and legal analysis has been supplemented with an abstract case study of grooming. The presented abstract case study is helpful in considering selected legal problems, and ultimately in presenting example legal classifications of the described acts referred to as grooming.</p>
</abstract>

The material scope of the research problem in the text encompasses selected issues concerning the content and sense of the elements characterizing the offense of establishing contact with a minor via ICT systems and telecommunications networks (also referred to as “grooming”) under Polish criminal law. In the legislation currently in force the offense of grooming is criminalized under Art. 200a §1–2 of the Criminal Code. The main purpose of the analysis is to perform a substantive criminal examination of the offense of grooming under Polish law, taking into account a practical case study. The analysis contained in the text is chiefly an overview, and includes mainly an institutional and legal analysis performed with the aid of textual, functional and doctrinal interpretations, which have been supplemented with the author’s own conclusions and opinions concerning de lege lata and de lege ferenda solutions. The institutional and legal analysis has been supplemented with an abstract case study of grooming. The presented abstract case study is helpful in considering selected legal problems, and ultimately in presenting example legal classifications of the described acts referred to as grooming.

Penal Policy on Combatting the Offense of Contacting a Minor Via ICT Systems and Telecommunications Networks in Poland

Polish Political Science Review

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The material scope of the research problem in the text encompasses selected issues concerning the content and sense of the elements characterizing the offense...

Penal Policy on Combatting the Offense of Contacting a Minor Via ICT Systems and Telecommunications Networks in Poland

Data publikacji: 22 gru 2023

Zakres stron: 86 - 99

Otrzymano: 18 kwi 2023

Przyjęty: 24 paź 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2023-0017

Słowa kluczowe
law policy, penal policy, criminal policy, sexual offenses, child sexual abuse, grooming offenses, grooming

© 2023 Remigiusz Rosicki, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Penal Policy on Combatting the Offense of Contacting a Minor Via ICT Systems and Telecommunications Networks in Poland

Data publikacji: 22 gru 2023

Zakres stron: 86 - 99

Otrzymano: 18 kwi 2023

Przyjęty: 24 paź 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2023-0017

Słowa kluczowelaw policy, penal policy, criminal policy, sexual offenses, child sexual abuse, grooming offenses, grooming

© 2023 Remigiusz Rosicki, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
law policy, penal policy, criminal policy, sexual offenses, child sexual abuse, grooming offenses, grooming