General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | European And Polish Criminal Policy |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | Prof. UAM dr hab. Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach |
Lecturer's email | hryniew@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | Profesor UAM |
Faculty | Faculty of Law and Administration |
Semester | 2025/2026 (winter) |
Duration | 30 |
ECTS | 8 |
USOS code | Erasm |
Timetable
mondays 9:00-10:30 AM
Module aim (aims)
· general idea of criminal law in European Union and its Member States
· general insight in Polish criminal law and Polish criminal system
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
· level of English that enables to communicate and read legal texts
Syllabus
Week 1: Basic concepts of criminal policy.
Week 2: Registered and unregistered crime, statistics and criminal policy.
Week 3: Do the patterns for „good” criminal policy exist?
Week 4: Council of Europe: the evolution and its importance for criminal law.
Week 5: Council of Europe: the European Convention of Human Rights
Week 6: European Union: the evolution of criminal policy and relevant EU institutions.
Week 7: European Union: substantive criminal law.
Week 8: European Union: cooperation in criminal matters.
Week 9: European Union: offenders and their rights.
Week 10: European Union: victims and their rights.
Week 11: European Union: EU Foreign and Security policy.
Week 12: Challenges for European criminal policy
Week 13: Evolution of criminal policy in Poland.
Week 14: Challenges to criminal policy in Poland.
Week 15: Summary of the course: crucial aspects of European and Polish criminal policy.
Reading list
Relevant texts are to be found in dedicated group in MS Teams.