Professor Zbigniew Lasocik – Ph.D. in Law and Criminology (1991), Habilitation in Law and Criminology (2004), Professor of Law and Criminology (2013); Professor, Head of the Centre for Research on Human Trafficking; author of over 110 publications on human trafficking and forced labor, crime, penitentiary system, police, sociology of total institutions, torture prevention, and civil society; leader of several international research projects funded by the European Commission; from 2007-2012, a member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture in Geneva; expert for the UN, Council of Europe, European Commission, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the fields of human rights, democracy, crime, and penitentiary system; scholarship recipient at, among others, Harvard University, Columbia University, New York, London School of Economics, Sam Houston University in Huntsville, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, University of Northern Colorado. He was the editor of the first Polish textbook on human trafficking. He is also the author of several dozen popular science works.
Research Interests
Criminology, human rights, human trafficking and modern slavery, serious crime, sociology of prison, crime control institutions, torture prevention, functioning of civil society.
Unit
Centre for Research on Human Trafficking, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw
3 latest publications:
Z. Lasocik, Response for Human Trafficking in Poland in a Nutshell, [in:] The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking, John Winterdyk, Jackie Jones (eds.), Cham, 2019.
Z. Lasocik, Study on reviewing the functioning of Member States’ National and Transnational Referral Mechanisms, collective work, Luxembourg 2020, Publications Office of the European Union, p. 128.
Z. Lasocik, Ł. Wieczorek, Legal and social implications of sexual services other than prostitution, Archiwum Kryminologii 2020, Vol. XLII, No. 2, pp. 133–174.