The Penal Code

State:Poland
Date: June 6, 1997
Language:English
Status:Enacted
Version:PDF

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Abetting
Age of criminal responsibility - national proceedings
Aggravating factors - national proceedings
Aggregation of criminal offences
Aggression
Aiding
Applicable law
Assisting
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Attempt
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Commission through another person
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Continuous criminal offences
Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are inherently indiscriminate - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering - IAC
Enforcement of fines
Enforcement of forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - conditions of imprisonment
Enforcement of national penalties - fines
Enforcement of national penalties - forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - imprisonment
Enforcement of sentence of imprisonment
Enforcement of sentences imposed
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Fair trial standards
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Genocide
Giving false testimony
Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Incapacity
Incitement
Incitement - other crimes
Individual commission
Individual criminal responsibility
Inducing
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Insanity
Intent
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, other groups
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Intoxication
Joint commission
Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction of custodial State or State where present
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Mental disease or defect
Mental element
Mistake of fact - national proceedings
Mistake of law - national proceedings
Mitigating factors - national proceedings
Murder - NIAC
National penalties - aggression
National penalties - genocide
National penalties - life imprisonment
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National penalties - war crimes
Nationality jurisdiction
Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings
Ne bis in idem
Ne bis in idem - State's own court
Ne bis in idem - foreign court
Necessity
Negligence
Non-retroactivity
Not affording judicial guarantees to the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions - NIAC
Nulla poena sine lege
Nullum crimen sine lege
Offences against administration of justice
Omission
Ordering
Ordering displacement of the civilian population - NIAC
Other defences - national proceedings
Other prohibited weapons - IAC
Passive personality jurisdiction
Preparation
Presenting false or forged evidence
Prohibited weapons
Prohibited weapons - NIAC
Protective jurisdiction
Providing means
Recidivism of criminal offences
Recklessness
Residence Jurisdiction
Rights during investigation - not to be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC
Self-defence
Sentencing - national proceedings
Soliciting
Statute of limitations
Taking of hostages - IAC
Territorial jurisdiction
Torture - IAC
Torture - NIAC
Unique provision - war crimes
Universal jurisdiction
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Utilising the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations - IAC
Voluntary withdrawal
War crimes
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC