ABSTRACT
This chapter of the book attempts to answer some of the questions that concern us as criminologists when considering crime in Poland over the past 30 years, which have been very dynamic for the country: from a society that has gone through a difficult period of rapid and comprehensive transformation to a mobile society based on new technologies. In this part of the book, however, we will focus primarily on indicating the changes in crime itself (its trends) and the criminal legal response to it from the point of view of the most significant changes in the Polish criminal law system, with particular emphasis on the amendments to the criminal code resulting from the process of change initiated by the transformation of the political and economic system and ending with the transition to the era of late modernity or the mobile society of new technologies. We have tried to capture and describe selected crime trends in the three decades described, indicating that with the development of a postmodern, high-tech society, we can make fewer and fewer predictions about crime trends and statistics.
