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The European Centre
for Penological Studies

im. prof. Genowefy Rejman

The European Centre
for Penological Studies

im. Genowefy Rejman

Purposes and tasks

The mission of the European Centre for Penological Studies is to develop, integrate and promote interdisciplinary knowledge about: criminal punishment and other penal sanctions; other forms of public coercion and violent interventions (in particular in relations to juveniles); the limits of the power to punish and the use of extra-legal political repression means, military actions and mafia-like political activities
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Activities

European Centre for Penological Studies is brought into being in order to take up the following activities: working out and realization of penological research programmes; organization of cooperation of academics from all over Europe and overseas who research issues important for development of penological thought; working out, organization and realization of academic courses related to penological ideas and problems and more...

Research

Cultural Context of the Criminal Policy and of the Reforms of Penal Law. Multidisciplinary Analysis : Legal, Penological, Historical, Sociological, Cultural (Anthropological) of Reforms of Penal Law in Poland in the Lights of European and and International Tendencies. Prestigious grant from National Centre of Science in Kraków : the Contract nr UMO-2011/01/B/HS5/03206. The Director of the Project Professor Jarosław Utrat-Milecki.

News


2025.04.08

On 20 March 2025, following the unanimous resolution of the Council of the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization of University of Warsaw, the Dean ordered the establishment of the Chair of the Culturally Integrated Legal and Social Studies at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization. The European Centre for Penological Studies functions in the framework of the Chair.
The Chair was established to replace the Department of Culturally Integrated Legal and Social Studies, which, on the initiative of Jarosław Utrat-Milecki and with the collaboration of Jadwiga Królikowska had been established during the reforms of the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization by the resolution of the Senate of the University of Warsaw on 17 December 2008. The establishment of the Chair was formally possible when the President of the Republic of Poland conferred on 18 February 2025 the title of full professor in social sciences in the discipline of the legal sciences on Jarosław Utrat-Milecki.
Jarosław Utrat-Milecki, as a Professor of the University of Warsaw, has been the Chief of that Unit since the Rector of the University of Warsaw nominated him for the first time to the post of Professor of Law of the University of Warsaw following the resolution of the Senate of the University of Warsaw of 18 November 2009.

2025.03.03


By the decision of 18 February 2025, the President of the Republic of Poland conferred the title of Full Professor of Social Sciences in the discipline of Legal Sciences on Jarosław Utrat-Milecki.

2025.01.08

PENOLOGICAL DELIBERATIONS. MISCELLANEA

Warsaw - Gdansk, 11-12 of January, 2025 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 

2024.06.03

On Monday 3rd June 1pm (1hr)  The Center organized a special online seminar with Dr Lucy Welsh (Sussex) and Professor Jadwiga Królikowska (Warsaw) as they presented their recent research into judicial cultures in England & Wales and Poland, respectively.

"The Lay of the Law: Legal professionals’ attitudes to the Magistracy" - Dr Lucy Welsh
"Judges on Punishment: Sociological Research" – Prof. Jadwiga Królikowska

2024.06.03

Comments on death penalty in the programme World TV "How we got here, by Jarosław Utrat-Milecki",

LINK HERE

2024.04.17

17 of April 2024 Seminar on the chosen questions of the reforms of criminal law in Poland and England and Wales, the presentations by Jarosław Utrat-Milecki and Stephen Shute organize by Institute of Criminology of University of Sussex with the European Centre for Penological Studies, meeting with platform ZOOM
–––> info here
–––> Seminar on ZOOM here

2024.04.02

Edition of Archives of Criminology Volume nr 45 issue 2/2023, prepared in cooperation with European Centre for Penological Studies of University of Warsaw. Special issue "Changing penologies and European crime policy. Theory and practice in the global context, guest edtiors: Joanna Banach-Gutierres, University of Warmia and Mazury, Tom Daems, KU Leuven, Institute of Criminology, Belgium, Anthea Hucklesby University of Birmingham, Jarosław Utrat-Milecki, European Centre for Penological Studies University of Warsaw.

2024.01.19

European Centre for Penological Studies with the collaboration of the Chair of Criminology of IPSiR organizes the working Seminar and study visit Criminal Justice in the 21 st Century (2nd Seminar) with the participation of our Colleagues from of University of Sussex: prof. Stephenem Shute, prof. Mark Walters, dr Paul McGuinnness, dr Simone Santorso, dr Lucy Welsh, dr Luca Follis, dr Hannah Mason-Bish.
OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAMME
January 22nd to 23rd of 2024

January 22nd, 2024,
10:15 a.m. (20 Podchorążych Street)
10:15 – 11:45 a.m. LECTURE Professor Stephan Shute The Origins and Development of Imprisonment in the United Kingdom. (room 44) 12:15 p.m. Seminar Criminal Justice in the 21 st Century. (room 37) Presentations, discussions, proposals, suggestions and ideas for research , publications and future collaboration.
January 23, 2024,
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Meeting at the Office for International Programmes (venue to be decided)

2024.01.09

European Centre for Penological Studies is organizing on 20-24 of January 2024 workshops with Colleagues from University of Sussex: prof. Stephen Shute, prof. Mark Walters, dr Paul McGuinness, dr Simone Santorso, dr Lucy Welsh, dr Luca Follis and dr Hannah Mason-Bish. The primary goal of workshops will be for participants to present on their research so we may plan possible future research collaborations. Workshops will be organised in IPSiR ul. Podchorazych 20, Warsaw, by European Centre for Penological Studies in collaboration with the Chair of Criminology of IPSiR.

2023.11.15

15 of November 2023, Rector of University of Warsaw awarded J. Utrat-Milecki
A Distinction for scholarly Achievement, and here is a link to the text.

General penology, volume 1

The first volume of the two-volume monograph presents in a systematic way the perception of criminal punishment as a legal and social institution of a procedural nature.

General penology. Volume 2

The second volume of the two-volume monograph presents theoretical foundations of penal policy in a systematic way.

Judges on Punishment, Punishing, and Impunity

Jadwiga Królikowska presents the comprehensive state of knowledge, notions and opinions concerning punishment, punishing and impunity of Polish criminal division judges in district, regional and appeal courts.

Opinion


Andrzej Zoll

Richard Pring

Michał Pietrzak

Ewa Nowicka-Rusek

Michael Mangan

Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska

Timothy J. Gorringe

Marian Filar

Janusz Danecki


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