Prawnohistoryczna analiza postępowania karno-administracyjnego w sprawach o wykroczenia
A Legal-Historical Analysis of Penal-Administrative Proceedings in Petty Offense Cases

Summary/Abstract: In the face of the urgent need for a reform of the petty offense law raised in the doctrine in recent years, it is reasonable to focus on the legal-historical analysis of criminal-administrative jurisprudence in petty offense cases. The model of criminal-administrative jurisprudence in petty offences cases was shaped by the undemocratic authoritarian order, on which the communist power of People’s Poland was based on. Its main assumption was to transfer of jurisprudence in petty offences cases into the hands of the people, but with a parallel assurance that the members of the colleges would be subordinated to the authorities. The article presents the evolution of criminal-administrative law until 1971, when an extensive codification of the law of petty offences was introduced and the petty offences law status was established as the “small criminal law”. At that time, the existing nomenclature of “criminal-administrative law” was also abandoned.

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