Karnoprawna odpowiedzialność za przestępstwo niealimentacji w świetle nowelizacji z 23 marca 2017 roku
Civil and criminal liability for failure to pay alimony in the light of the amendment of 23 March, 2017

Summary/Abstract: This article relates to the crime of failure to pay alimony and the changes introduced by the legislative amendment of 23 March, 2017. First of all, there has been a substantial change in the wording of Art. 209 of the Criminal code; the term “persistence” has been rejected, and two types of the crime have been described. According to the legislator, the amendment is to be a legal and criminal law instrument ensuring the implementation of the protection of alimony rights of the entitled under the law or judicial decision. According to the author, the described changes will not lead to the elimination of the crime of failure to pay alimony, because criminal laws do not provide adequate tools to combat the phenomenon. Criminological research has undermined the belief in the rehabilitation value of correctional imprisonment.

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