Monika Płatek
Monika Płatek in Warsaw (2019)
NationalityPolish
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • Legal scholar
  • Criminologist
AwardsKnight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Monika Stanisława Płatek is a Polish legal scholar, criminologist, and politician. She is a professor at the University of Warsaw, and her research focuses on penal systems, criminal and civil law, gender studies, and feminist jurisprudence.[1] She has been a candidate for the Senate of Poland and the European Parliament.[2][3]

Education

Płatek attended the University of Warsaw, where in 1976 she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration.[4] In 1992 she completed a doctorate with the thesis Przyczyny niepowodzenia okresu próby przy warunkowym przedterminowym zwolnieniu (Reasons for the failure of the probationary period under conditional early release). In 2008 she completed a habilitation in law for the work Systemy penitencjarne państw skandynawskich na tle polityki kryminalnej, karnej i penitencjarnej (Penitentiary systems of the Scandinavian countries against the background of criminal, penal and penitentiary policy)[5] at the University of Warsaw.[1]

Career

In 1976, Płatek began working in the Department of Criminology in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.[6] In 2008 she became an Associate Professor,[6] and later a University Professor.[7] She has also served as head of the criminology department, and deputy director of the Institute of Criminal Law at the University of Warsaw.[8] Płatek specializes in criminal and civil law, the penal system of Poland in comparison to other countries, and criminal and civil law.[8] She also focuses on feminist jurisprudence and gender studies in criminology.[8]

In 1994 Płatek founded the Polish Association for Legal Education, of which she then served as the president.[9] She has also been a board member of the Panoptykon Foundation, an anti-mass surveillance human rights NGO,[10] and the board for the Osiatyński Archive, a legal archive.[11]

In 2015, Płatek ran for the Senate of Poland on behalf of the United Left coalition, receiving 13% of the vote.[2] In 2019, she ran for the European Parliament on the list of the political party Spring.[3]

In 2020, she hosted a broadcast on Halo Radio.[12] That same year she was a member of the Consultative Council.[13]

Płatek was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by Bronisław Komorowski in 2012.[14]

Selected awards

  • Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2012)

Selected works

  • "Europejskie Reguły Więzienne a polskie prawo i praktyka penitencjarna", Studia Luridica (1997)
  • "Hostages of destiny: Gender issues in today's Poland", Feminist Review (2004)
  • Systemy penitencjarne państw skandynawskich (2007)
  • "Kryminologiczno-epistemologiczne i genderowe aspekty przestępstwa zgwałcenia", Archiwum kryminologii (2010)
  • "Zgwałcenie. Gdy termin nabiera nowej treści. Pozorny brak zmian i jego skutki", Archiwum kryminologii (2018)

References

  1. 1 2 "dr hab. Monika Stanisława Płatek" [Dr [with habilitation] Monika Stanisława Płatek]. Nauka Polska (in Polish). 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. 1 2 "Results of the elections to the Senate of the Republic of Poland" (in Polish). Government of Poland. 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Wyniki wyborów 2019 do Parlamentu Europejskiego" (in Polish). Government of Poland. 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Monika Płatek" (in Polish). Parliament of Poland. 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Monika Płatek, Charakterystyka kandydatki" (in Polish). Obywatele mają głos. April 13, 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Wniosek o mianowanie na stanowisko profesora" (PDF) (in Polish). University of Warsaw. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Team". Institute of Public Affairs. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  8. 1 2 3 "Dr hab. Monika Płatek prof. ucz". University of Warsaw. 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Historia PSEP" (in Polish). Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Edukacji Prawnej. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "Ludzie" (in Polish). Panoptykon Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "Prof. Mirosław Wyrzykowski: Pozakonstytucyjna zmiana ustroju staje się faktem. O tym trzeba debatować, panie Prezydencie" (in Polish). OKO Press. August 26, 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  12. ↑ "Lempart, Płatek i Hartman w Halo.Radiu, współpracę zakończył Śpiewak". Press Pl (in Polish). June 23, 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  13. ↑ Czarnacka, Agata (2020-11-01). "13 postulatów Strajku Kobiet. O co walczą?" [Women's Strike's thirteen demands. What are they fighting for?]. Polityka (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  14. ↑ "M.P. 2012 poz. 872" (in Polish). Government of Poland. 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
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