Published: 2023-12-29

Plagiarism as a form of disrespect for academics’ copyright. A victimological perspective

Eugeniusz Moczuk Logo ORCID , Dorota Kamuda Logo ORCID , Arkadiusz Leśniak-Moczuk Logo ORCID

Abstract

Pathology in the academic community is not an isolated phenomenon. The various dysfunctional phenomena that appear in this community, encompassing many kinds of behaviour, have nothing to do with scientific truth or the ethos of the scholar. One such situation is the phenomenon of plagiarism in science, the genesis of which consists of numerous factors, of an institutional, institutional-organisational, group and individual nature. And in spite of the existence of relevant laws that speak of copyright, intellectual property, or misappropriation of authorship or misrepresentation of authorship of all or part of another’s work, there is no legal definition of plagiarism, and the phenomenon has still not been eliminated from contemporary science. This study analyses plagiarism from a victimological perspective, presenting what a victim of plagiarism feels when he or she has knowledge of such an incident. It uses a qualitative analytical method from the sociology of law, namely case analysis.

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Moczuk, Eugeniusz, Dorota Kamuda, and Arkadiusz Leśniak-Moczuk. 2023. “Plagiarism As a Form of Disrespect for academics’ Copyright. A Victimological Perspective”. Forum Polityki Kryminalnej [Forum on Criminal Policy], no. 2(6) (December):1-36. https://doi.org/10.31261/FPK.2023.06.04.

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No. 2(6) (2023)
Published: 2024-02-16


eISSN: 2720-1589
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FPK

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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