The presentation summarizes the results of a student work plan investigating crime in Korczyna, Poland. It includes interviews with residents who were victims of break-ins, an interview with a resident about general crime in the area, opinions on personal safety and crime in Poland, and the results of a student survey on crime and safety. The presentation found that residents feel safe in their neighborhood but not in Poland overall, and that factors like family issues, drugs, and media influence contribute to youth crime. It aimed to increase awareness of crime and prevent future incidents.

2. Our work plan
1. A conversation with the citizens who have
been affected by the crime in Korczyna.
2. An interview with a person who does not
belong to the circle of people affected by the
crime.
3. How to prevent the crime?
4. Finding information in the Internet.
5. Opinions on the security state in the
country.
6. Opinions on the security state in our
neighborhood.
7. A sense of personal danger.
8. A survey which we performed in our
school( the text of the survey in the annex.
9. A presentation of the results of our work.

4. The story written by the life
These unforgettable events will remain in the memory of Krosno district people.
Mrs. Maria Kuliga ( 75 years old) is a resident of Korczyna.
She remembers this night when someone visited her very well. At midnight in February last year
Mrs. Maria was sleeping when she heard a strange sounds from behind the kitchen window.
After shielding the curtain she saw two men. The first man was fat and short and the second man was
slim and tall. In a moment these men started hitting the door. Probably they wanted to open the door.
The frightened woman held the mobile phone in her hand but everything died away. After a moment
thugs came back.
With greater power they started to hit the door. The frightened woman called for security services.
"I didn't know what I was supposed to do" -a woman was saying. "When the thugs heard my false
conversations, they escaped"-saying Mrs. Maria. Looking out of the window the woman saw these
men well because the moon shone brightly.
Mrs. Maria’s neighbour saw this event. He wanted to go to her in order to help her.
"I don't know what would happen with me, if they came to my house but I didn't call the police"- Mrs.
Maria said.
Today she is living in terror. Everything at night causes that she is afraid.
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5. A few days later after this incident another elderly women were attacked.
Mrs. Maria Jakubik was sleeping when her dog was barking.
Somebody hit a window and somebody smashed a window-pane. Two men armed into the knife
and the handgun, dressed in dark tracksuits, in masks on their faces, started threatening the
woman.
The old lady was frightened. "When they tied my hands and destroyed my mobile phone they
started threatening me" - said Mrs. Maria Jakubik . The thugs took money and they devastated
her house.
The next day Mrs. Maria’s son called the security services. Then it turned out that Mrs. Maria
Kuliga had similar experience.
The police officers visited residents of Korczyna. The thugs each time got into houses in different
ways.
Mrs. Maria a woman from Korczyna was luckier than the remaining women. The police officers
were looking around the neighborhood but they said that they cannot assure safety for every
lonely person.
All residents of Krosno district were shocked . All lonely and elderly women live with the feeling of
fear because the thugs are free.
" We hope that they will get what they deserve at one time "- said residents of Korczyna.
The thugs did another crimes, and the local police are helpless.
We,ordinary people, can help to catch thieves or discover their identity.

6. I'm having an interview with Zofia Zwiercan today about crime in Korczyna,
our town.
J.Z: Good morning.
Z.Z: Good morning.
J.Z: Today, we're talking about crime in Korczyna. Have you ever come across it in our town?
Z.Z: Korczyna is a quite calm town and I don't practically see any serious crime in here. But there is, of course,
some petty crime like thefts, shoplifting.
J.Z: What is your view: is this type of crime increasing these days?
Z.Z: It seems to me that it is still increasing – the most frequently in schools and shops. I also hear about
deception sometimes, but it's much rarer.
J.Z: What should we do to decrease the thefts? Do you have any idea?
Z.Z: There should be a lot of talks about it in schools, I think.
J.Z: Do you feel safe in our town?
Z.Z: Rather yes. As I said, there isn't any serious crime here and I hope it won't change.
J.Z: How about safety at roads? What can you say about it?
Z.Z: I often read in newspapers about car accidents in close towns. And I must say that our town is quite safe if
we are talking about it. Sometimes, there are drunk drivers but it happens really rarely.
J.Z: Thank you for the interview. Goodbye.
Z.Z: Thank you. Goodbye.

7. We often hear in the media about various crimes
committed by young people. There are crimes such as
burglary, assault, robbery. What are the reasons of
them? One factor is violence and pathology in families.
The next important reasons are taking drugs and also
bad influence of television and the Internet. We can't
stand idly by! We should do something with it. Adults
can fight with such behavior by talking with young
people, setting a good example and helping them when
they have problems. Otherwise, they wouldn't cope with
the surrounding reality.

8. A police officer from the main headquarters in Krosno answered
above questions.
What should the police in the case of pickpockets and car crime do?
The police prevention that is early for fending is the most important issue. They can give advice and
warn people. If we take into consideration citizens, their appropriate prevention is also extremely
important. In case of pickpockets the population should become aware of what to do and not to do.
For example not to carry wallets, bags with large sum of money. As for the car crime one should be
advised in what way and where to leave vehicles ( advices in the brochure).
What one should do in order to prevent crime?
It is only possible to limit it and to avoid threats. Crime is an essential
part of the civilisation.

10. Crime- phenomenon
more and more
spreading in the society.
The feeling of being threatened by the crime is high. This is a political and
social problem. The increase of sense of threat is often co-occuring with such
phenomena as:
-worsening the standard of citizens everyday life,
-reducing the confidence in the administration of justice, the police or state
authorities
-limiting the possibility of carrying on modern criminal prevention, which is
mainly based on the cooperation of the police with the citizens.

11. Residents should be more careful. They should help
each other in the neighborhood. People shouldn't be
indifferent to the evil that happens to the others.
We should help people who cannot deal with their life
and escape to commit a crime. Don’t be unsympathetic
if someone gets hurt!

12. Opinions on the
safety state in the
domicile.
Opinions on the safety in the domicile are much better than opinions on the safety state in the
country.
A small number of population thinks that Poland is a safe country.
The most of the population is convinced that their domicile is secure.
Definitely, the village inhabitants think they are the most safe. The least safe feel the residents of
major cities.
Almost all Poles regard their country insecure place. They think Poland is a country in which there is
a lot of crime.
We can suppose, that opinions about the safety in the country, are mainly based on the information
obtained from mass media, which are usually interested in the most dangerous matters.
We can assume, that relatively large part of the Polish clearly distinguishes between their own,
well-nown surroundings they live in, and with "the entire country", in which processes are occurring
as much distant as worrying.

13. Opinions about the safety in the
country.
Tracing the answer to a question set regularly to people by CBOS is interesting: "Whether in your point
of view Poland is a safe country? ". The social, economic and political changes of the turn in the
eighties and ninetieth coincided with the change of the image of Poland as the country, where people
lead safe life.
In 1987, 74% of the society regarded Poland as the safe country, however in 1993 such feeling had only
26% examined. The image of Poland was formed in the first half of the ninetieth, where it was said that
people living in this country do not live safely. The last researches from 1998, proved that 22% of the
respondents felt safe in the country, whereas, 76% denied.
At present, such perceiving of the distress with a crime is common to all
sorts of groups and social layers. Certain diversities of the opinions which appeared earlier (in the recent
survey), became statistically unimportant.

14. The personal threat feeling
In the last years, the crime is more often a subject of talks led in families and amongst friends. In March 1998, according
to OBOP researches, 77% respondents said that they at least one time within a month brought this subject up in the
everyday conversation.
It turns out, that relatively optimistic image of feeling safety, in a place where we live, looks a bit different.
When the questions are more specific and referring to a situation which is precisely given, then one can see, that threat of
the crime is strongly felt in the everyday life and connected with the anxiety to common crimes.
Almost every second Polish (47%) doesn't feel safely, walking in one's surroundings in the dusk, and most of the
respondents (68%) feel afraid of a burglary when they leave their flat for several days' trip.
What's interesting, in the last period, a little percentage of people, who are afraid that they can become a casual victim of
the terrorist assault or of a criminal feud was a bit reduced.
About 25% of the respondents are still afraid of the gangs and the organised criminal groups.
The level of the social anxieties that the examined can become a victim of an offence, in the last years is quite stable. Most
of the respondents (over 60%) are declaring the anxieties, however only the 15% of respondents declare that they are very
much afraid of the crime.

15. survey text in the brochure

16. W h a t t ime yo u f e e l sa f e ?
after 22:00
after 24:00
always is safe
never is safe
3%
14%
55%
28%

17. W h a t a f f e c t s pu pil c r ime ?
35 34
30
25
25
20
15
10
10
5 3
0

18. Does Pol a n d ha ve a
pr o b l e m w it h pu pil c r ime ?
13%
yes
no
87%

19. W h o sh o u l d in c r e a se it s
a c t io n s t o pr e v e n t c r ime ?
35 30
30 21
25
20 12
15 6
10 3
5
0
parents
other
police
school
education
school-
centres

20. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
only in 35
certain
30
places
everywhere
8
nowhere
9
W h e r e yo u f e e l sa f e ?
in the
neighborhoo
25
d of my
house

21. This presentation created by :
Kuliga Anna
Paradysz Sylwia
Wilusz Klaudia
Zwiercan Julia
Thank you for
watching our
presentation.
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Secondary School in Korczyna