https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2025.15.05
The article deals with the activities of the Polish legislator within the scope of protecting animals against selected crimes committed against them. It presents the results of the analysis of legislative policy, which apart from penal and executive policies, constitutes a component of the state’s criminal policy. Legislative policy categorizes behaviors to be combated with criminal punishment and other instruments of criminal-legal response after a prior analysis of the crime and an exhaustive study of the effectiveness of specific crime prevention measures. The study presents the evolution of legislative policy that has taken place over the years, beginning with the first piece of legislation that laid the cornerstone for systemic animal protection in Poland. It also discusses the most important measures taken under the current applicable Law on Animal Protection, which led to the current shape of legal protection of animals against crimes. The very analyses also take into account the complexity of interactions between changes that have occurred over the years not only in legislation, but also in philosophy, social movements and society’s awareness of the status of animal protection.
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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-30
10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA
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