Selected Offences from the Special Section of the Penal Code — Crimes Against Property

This study aims to examine the problem of selected offences against property listed in the Penal Code. Criminal law is one of the branches of the legal system in force in Poland. It fulfils a special role because it protects not only the state and social and economic relations but mainly human rights and freedoms against offences that could undermine them. The article describes the conducted research, which was based on two main research methods, i.e. the diagnostic survey method and the statistical analysis method. The method of analysing the subject literature was adopted as a subsidiary one. The statistical method was based on the analysis of the 2019 crime statistics of the National Police Headquarters. In particular, the article discusses the offences that were deemed the most troublesome by the residents of the capital city of Warsaw: theft, burglary, fraud, damage to property and unlawful appropriation