Wandalizm zabytków z perspektywy kryminologicznej
Vandalism of monuments from the criminological perspective

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authors discuss issues referring to the vandalism of monuments from the criminological perspective. They present the legal definition of criminal acts of vandalism. The paper begins by pointing out selected etiological factors. The main focus of the paper is on the phenomenology of vandalism of monuments. In this part, the specific forms of monument vandalism which appear very often in north-eastern Poland (Warmia, Masuria, Podlasie) are characterized. Furthermore, the paper presents the phenomenology of issues such as: ideological vandalism, vandalism of archaeological monuments, vandalism by omission, and vandalism of cultural landscape. By confronting linguistic and doctrinal definitions of vandalism with the phenomenon as it occurs in practice, the authors create their own definition of the vandalism of monuments.

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