Domestic violence in Torun region,Poland — 1995, 1996

The following report concerns research conducted by this author in early January 1997 in the District Court (Sad Rejonowy) in the city of Torun in Poland. The purpose of the research was to investigate the scope and nature of the phenomenon known in Western countries as “domestic violence.” The legal provision concerning that crime is contained in Article 184 of the Polish Penal Code of 1969. The provision was placed in Chapter XXV of the Code entitled “Crimes Against Family, Custody, and the Youth” which also contains the following crimes: bigamy, continuous leading of a minor to drunkenness, evasion of alimony obligations, abandonment of a person who is dependent on others, and abduction.     

STR data for SGM Plus and penta E and D loci in a population sample from south Poland

Frequency data of short tandem repeats loci included in the SGM Plus kit and on two pentanucleotide STR loci: Penta E and Penta D [Profiles DNA 2 (1998) 2] included in the PowerPlex16 kit were collected from a sample of 400 (for SGM Plus) and 91 (for Penta E and Penta D) random, unrelated individuals born in the South Poland region.