Here is just a very brief post that provides a summary of the prison population in Poland. The table illustrates data between 1989 and 2014 that are categorized by type of custody. Nevertheless, the last category (‘ukarani’ translated by me as ‘punished’) would be worth exploring further as many sociologists could get exasperated when attempting to make sense of it.
I am a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology (LSE). I hold a MSc in Social Policy (Research) from the LSE and a MA in Social Policy from the University of Warsaw. My doctoral research relates to attitudes of lay people in Poland to different crimes and sanctions insofar as these attitudes can shed light on the viability of restorative approaches to justice. Prior to beginning my Ph.D. I was working as a Research Assistant at Kingston University & St George’s University of London and Anglia Ruskin University. Alongside my doctoral studies I have worked as a qualified court and police interpreter in the UK. Apart from my research passion for restorative justice I am equally interested in the sociology of punishment, criminal justice policies in Central and Eastern European countries, domestic violence, motherhood in prison, penal labour and the sociological aspects of court interpreting. I tweet @MatczakAnia and my academic profile is available at https://lse.academia.edu/AnnaMatczak.
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