Criminals and Criminality on the so–called Recovered Territories (Poland) after the End of WW II (1945 – 1950) in the Light of Judicature of the Selected Polish Regional Courts
Criminals and Criminality on the so–called Recovered Territories (Poland) after the End of WW II (1945 – 1950) in the Light of Judicature of the Selected Polish Regional Courts

Summary/Abstract: With criminality on those territories based on criminal cases and published diaries by Polish settlers living in that part of Silesia. That will include not only registered criminality but also crimes ‘undetectable’ for the statistics – unregistered crimes, whose victims were not reported to the police. Information about crimes committed on those territories was very often mentioned only in the diaries of those settlers. The main aim of this article is to depict characteristic of criminality and criminals when the population changed its place and social bonds were disintegrated. The author would like to ask some important questions: Who were the criminals? Were they average or maybe demoralized persons? What were the motives of the crimes they committed? What crimes were the most common? Criminal (e.g. robbery, rape, murder) or perhaps political ones?

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