ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to analyse and describe selected aspects of the adult crime structure and the profile of offenders: former juveniles who committed criminal acts starting from either the 1980s (the transition generation) or the late 1990s and into 2000 (the millennial generation) and who carried on their criminal activity into adulthood. This chapter also charts their delinquency against the general statistics of crime in Poland during the transition period, whilst adopting a realistic approach to crime statistics, on the assumption that there is a variable relationship between reported and unreported crimes and between disclosed and undisclosed crimes and that formal data do not necessarily reflect a picture of actual criminality.
