Abruptly interrupted lives : The effects of executing the European arrest warrant procedures on Polish emigrants

Współautorstwo: Klaus, Witold; Włodarczyk-Madejska, Justyna

Forced Mobility of EU Citizens : Transnational Criminal Justice Instruments and the Management of 'Unwanted' EU Nationals / edited by José A. Brandariz, Witold Klaus, Agnieszka Martynowicz. London : Routledge, 2023, s. 141-166.

The outcome of the issuance and enforcement of the European Arrest Warrant is the forcible removal of a person to the issuing country, which is most often the country of origin. According to the Polish Ministry of Justice, between 2006 and 2020, Poland issued more than 70,000 EAWs, although European Commission data show a lower number of 45,000. Obviously, this does not mean that so many individuals were forcibly returned to Poland, as it is not uncommon for more than one warrant to be issued against a single person. Moreover, not all wanted persons are tracked down by other Member States and handed over to the Polish authorities. On average, the effectiveness of such searches measured by the number of persons actually handed over is 26% in the EU, while for Poland between 2005 and 2013 this figure was slightly lower at 21%. In recent years, however, this efficiency has been growing and in 2019 the EU average was 66%. These data show the effectiveness of Polish EAWs to be less than 30% and that slightly more than 13,000 people have been transferred to Poland from other EU countries between 2005 and 2019. However, our findings and Polish unpublished statistical data demonstrate that the effectiveness of the warrants issued from 2018 to 2019 was much higher and reached about 70%: such was the percentage of wanted persons successfully transferred to Poland

Is the EAW efficient? : Assessment of the European arrest warrant procedure based on opinions of Polish criminal justice practitioners

Współautorstwo: Włodarczyk-Madejska, Justyna

Forced Mobility of EU Citizens : Transnational Criminal Justice Instruments and the Management of 'Unwanted' EU Nationals / edited by José A. Brandariz, Witold Klaus, Agnieszka Martynowicz. London : Routledge, 2023, s. 120-140.

The Council Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) of 2002 introduced a measure that simplified the extradition procedures based on international conventions which were previously in force in the EU. The Framework Decision is often referred to as the ‘cornerstone’ of judicial collaboration in the EU because it implements two fundamental principles: of mutual recognition and mutual trust. The first principle means that the judicial authorities of one EU Member State are tasked with enforcing a judgement or sentence issued by a judicial authority of another Member State. These judgements are treated as if they had been issued by a domestic court. In order to guarantee smooth enforcement of rulings, Member States are obliged to mutually recognise their legal orders and the accuracy of judgements. In other words, the judicial authorities of a Member State are obliged to trust in the legitimacy of legal decisions taken by the authorities of another Member State (see Aranyosi and Căldăraru, C-404/V5 and C-659/15, para. 79; Lanigan, C-237/15 PPU, para. 36).

Sprawozdanie z 35th Baltic Criminology Seminar – Challenges for criminology in turbulent Times, Tallinn, Estonia 19–20 czerwca 2023 r.

Biuletyn Kryminologiczny 2023, nr 30, s. 277-279.

Współautorstwo: Sidor-Borek, Paulina

W dniach 19–20 czerwca 2023 r. w Tallinnie (Estonia) odbyło się 35. Seminarium Kryminologiczne Państw Bałtyckich. W tym roku tematem przewodnim były wyzwania dla kryminologii w burzliwych czasach. Seminarium Kryminologiczne Państw Bałtyckich wpisało się już w tradycję spotkań kryminologicznych regionu, integruje osoby badające przestępczość z państw regionu: Estonii, Litwy, Łotwy, Polski, a także – do niedawna – Federacji Rosyjskiej. Ze względu na sankcje nałożone na obywateli Federacji Rosyjskiej, w związku z trwającą wojną w Ukrainie, w seminarium nie mógł uczestniczyć jego wieloletni organizator i uczestnik – prof. Yakov Gilinsky z Petersburga. Wiadomość Profesora skierowaną do uczestników semina-rium odczytała Anna Markina z Katedry Prawa Karnego, Wydział Prawa Uniwersytetu w Tartu (Department of Criminal Law, School of Law, University of Tartu, Estonia), organizatorka tegorocznego seminarium.