Przypadek Manfreda i Kristen – czyli stalking jako przyczynek do kilku refleksji o tym, jak prawo odpowiada na zjawisko społeczne
The case of Manfred and Kristen. Stalking as a contribution to a few reflections on how the law responds to the social phenomenon

Summary/Abstract: The underlying objective of the analysis carried out in the paper was on the one hand to evaluate how the results of criminological examinations translate into the legislator’s decision as to the scope of criminalisation of a selected undesirable behaviour, taking into account both the requirements of criminal policy and problems resulting from the imperfect nature of language as a carrier of the contents of such a decision. On the other hand, the paper was intended to determine whether other normative tools than those offered by penal law can more effectively respond to violations of legal interests of an aggrieved party. The phenomenon of stalking and related regulations, namely § 107a of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Austria and § 382g of the Austrian Federal Act on Execution and Safeguarding Proceedings, was used to illustrate the analyses. The paper makes references to several judgments of the Supreme Court of Justice of Austria, and uses the formaldogmatic method, as well as the deductive approach and criminological diagnoses to carry out a critical analysis of the regulations referred to above.

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