Badania nad przestępczością zorganizowaną w kontekście jej przeciwdziałania i zwalczania. Ujęcie retrospektywne
Research into organised crime in the context of preventing and combatting the crime. A retrospective study

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a retrospective study of organised crime in the contextof preventing and combatting the crime. The first part of this article indicates the gen-esis of the research conducted by various academic centres, with particular emphasison the initiatives undertaken in the 1980s by the Department of Criminal Law andCriminology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In the years to follow, aleading role in this field was played by the structures representing criminological sci-ences at the Faculty of Law in Białystok, within the Białystok School of Criminology. Inthe second part of the article, the author discusses the research initiatives undertakenby the Police Academy in Szczytno as regards an institutional approach to combattingorganised crime. Indicated have been the most important research projects implement-ed by the academics of the Police Academy in Szczytno in cooperation with partnersrepresenting other academic centres and the Foundation for Organised Crime Preven-tion. The third part of the article deals with trends and opportunities to increase theeffectiveness of preventing and fighting organised crime on the basis of the researchconducted by the Białystok School of Criminology. In particular, the conclusions re-sulting from a pioneering research project carried out by Dr. Zbigniew Rau have beenhighlighted, which initiated coordinated research on security in Poland. To conclude,the author emphasises that the creation of a coherent and comprehensive systemfor preventing and combatting organised crime, based on a scientific analysis of thisphenomenon, should be the main objective of the state authorities. Comprehensivesolutions should include both material, legal, procedural and executive regulations.The role of scientific and academic centres is to search for and analyse the problemsthat accompany organised crime and the system of its prevention and control. Thosemay be legal, criminological, forensic, but also ethical in nature, e.g. protection ofprivacy, conflicts of legal goods - freedom and security, the constitutional principle ofproportionality or opportunism in criminal procedings. Available technologies shouldtherefore be analysed and assessed for their implementation, but it is the role of theauthorities to introduce them and assess their suitability for the current needs of theservices concerned. This should be done both in theoretical (including dogmatic) andpractical terms

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