Odpowiedzialność urzędnika za przestępstwa popełnione z chęci zysku w okresie międzywojennym
Responsibility of offi cials for crimes committed for profit in Poland between the two world wars

Summary/Abstract: Between the two world wars a new model of public administration, with a new type ofcivil servants, was created. Officials from the parts of Poland that had belonged to different partitions had different qualifications and represented different moral and ethical standards. Clerical matters required solutions going beyond administrative structures and stafftraining, and also included fraud prevention. Despite the euphoria of independence, poverty, hunger, unemployment, and uncertainty of the future led to an increase in crime, also among civil servants. The situation was also hampered by the lack of uniform legislation.To prevent crimes committed by civil servants, an array of disciplinary rules were introduced including the penalty of death by firing squad. It was the most rigorous legislationpunishing dishonest civil servants in Polish history. Historical sources based on the pressreleases from the period demonstrate that most such judgments concerned the military.Later, the law relaxed, and crimes such as passive and active bribery received model regulationin the Criminal Code of 1932, on which current criminal legislation is partially based.

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