Z DZIEJÓW STATYSTYKI SĄDOWEJ NA ZIEMIACH POLSKICH W XIX WIEKU. ROMAN BUCZYŃSKI – STATYSTYK KRÓLESTWA POLSKIEGO
ON HISTORY OF COURT STATISTICS ON POLISH SOIL IN THE 19TH CENTURY. ROMAN BUCZYŃSKI – THE STATISTICIAN OF THE POLISH KINGDOM

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the background of criminal statistics on Polish soil and the role that Roman Buczyński, the forgotten statistician of the Polish Kingdom, played at this stage. It seems that R. Buczyński deserves to be reminded, and his literary writings related with the beginnings of criminal statistics on Polish soil require a more extensive analysis. The unquestioned significance of R. Buczyński’s works is based on the fact, that he related to data from Polish lands and he interested Polish lawyers with the issue of the growth of criminal activity. He was the author of the greatest number of works in the field of statistics created on Polish soil during the second half of the 19th century. And though, statistical data R. Buczyński based his assumptions on, and the way of processing these data aroused doubt, the final conclusions related with the causes of criminal activity are worth mentioning. He saw the impact of factors on the types of committed crimes, such as: geographical conditions, political and historical, economical conditions, etc. He searched for the causes of crimes, among others, in the economical situation, the youth upbringing, the insufficient penal repressiveness, greed, feelings – the pathological and characterological elements. Though, he was a representative of the classical school in penal law, in this field we can see his interest in the problematics, which later was the foundations of research of the sociological school.

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