Karolina Całkowska PhD
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Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Foundations of Pedagogy at the Academy of Justice in Warsaw. Doctor of Social Sciences in the Discipline of Sociological Sciences.
2023: Obtaining the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences in the Discipline of Sociological Sciences.
Title of dissertation: “The origins of penology – punishment as an element of democratic society. A study of the work of Francis Lieber”.
2016 – 2023: Interdepartmental Community Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of History based at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation at the University of Warsaw;
2016: Master’s degree in Social Prevention and Re-socialisation at the Institute of Social Prevention and Re-socialisation, WSNSiR, University of Warsaw.
Master’s thesis title: “Penology at the source. Francis Lieber- the founder of penology and his work”.
2014-2016: Master’s degree in Social Prevention and Re-socialisation at the Institute of Social Prevention and Re-socialisation, WSNSiR, UW
2014: Bachelor’s degree in Social Prevention and Re-socialisation at the Institute of Social Prevention and Re-socialisation, WSNSiR UW
Bachelor’s thesis title: “Olobok – a traditional village of the 1930s and 1940s as an educational environment. Analysis of the phenomenon on the basis of in-depth interviews”.
2011-2014: Bachelor’s degree in Social Prevention and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Social Prevention and Rehabilitation, WSNSiR UW
Research interests:
The emergence and development of scientific reflection on issues related to criminal punishment and crime, the emergence of the field of criminology and penology
in the context of the development of the social sciences;
Crime and punishment as an element of social life (perceptions of the punished, perceptions of the types of punishment and the extent of punishment, penal populism, perceptions of the convicted criminal);
The life of the sentenced person before, during and after punishment;
Alternative forms of imprisonment, restorative justice, probation;
Human rights and punishment, “humanitarianism” in punishment (historical and
and contemporary perspectives);
History of criminal punishment.