Open AccessPrawnokarna ochrona prawidłowego funkcjonowania rodziny
Author(s) -
Krystyna Szczechowicz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia prawnoustrojowe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-7056
pISSN - 1644-0412
DOI - 10.31648/sp.4941
Subject(s) - legislator , legal guardian , scope (computer science) , criminal law , law , family law , criminal code , political science , subject (documents) , criminology , psychology , legislation , library science , computer science , programming language
This article deals with the issue of the scope of protecting marriage and the family in the Polish criminal law system. The family is subject to Chapter 16 of the Polish Criminal Code, which is entitled “Crimes against family and guardianship”. The chapter’s title indicates that family and care are the legal generic good protected by the provisions it contains. However, the legislator’s actions are restrained so as not to interfere too much in the functioning of a family, on the one hand, while, on the other, providing protection for its members. The problem also involves the emotional bond between the perpetrator and the victim, which in many cases leads to non-disclosure of the fact of committing a crime. Criminal law is, in many cases, intended to strengthen civil and family law regulations.