Zabójstwo dziecka jako zagadnienie kodyfikacyjne w II Rzeczypospolitej
Child murder as a codification issue in the Second Polish Republic

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the course of the codification works of the Criminal Law Section of the Codification Commission during the interwar period concerning the legal qualification of a criminal act as infanticide or child murder. The editorial records of the drafts of the 1932 Criminal Code adopted by the Criminal Law Section as well as the discussion on the subject which accompanied the codification works are subjected to analysis. The legitimacy of amending and unifying criminal regulations in the analyzed area is presented on the ex- ample of the archival records of the Piotrków Trybunalski Regional Court. The issue of the codification of child murder and infanticide during the Second Polish Republic period has not been hitherto discussed in the literature on the subject.

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