Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes in the lives of many university students around the globe, including students at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Isolation, a sense of threat, and the transition to remote learning resulted in numerous, mainly psychological, negative consequences for students. The university aimed to provide students with effective assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The question now is whether it has succeeded or failed. This study demonstrates good practices in mental health support at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University during the pandemic and post-pandemic period. Methods: The study was conducted between October and December 2022. The case study method and purposive sampling were used in the study. A total of 19 participants took part in this study. Of the respondents, 16 were females, 3 were males. Ages ranged between 26 and 55 years. Results: Research has shown that the university provided students with various forms of mental health support. During the COVID-19 pandemic, in the 2020/2021 academic year, students and university staff were provided with pedagogical, psychological, and/or psychotherapeutic consultations. Among the main problems reported by students and staff were anxiety, lowered mood, depressive conditions, failure to cope with stress, relationship problems at university, a spectrum of pandemic-related problems, life crises, and discrimination related to sexual orientation. Support was provided via web platforms, social networking websites, and by phone, directly and free of charge. Conclusions: The impact of the pandemic has exposed strengths and weaknesses in the management of the mental health support system at the university. It also showed new needs and directions of support. The university has new goals; one of the greatest is preparing students for the challenges of the future.

Możliwość wykonywania pracy przez osoby skazane jest regulowana przez prawo danego kraju. W polskim prawie karnym wykonawczym praca jest jednym ze środków oddziaływań na skazanych, których zadaniem jest realizacja indywidualno-prewencyjnych celów wykonywania kary pozbawienia wolności. W polskim systemie penitencjarnym, w miarę możliwości istniejących na rynku pracy, zatrudnia się osoby skazane zakładając, że pełni ona wiele ważnych funkcji. W badaniu ankietowym wzięło udział 452 skazanych z siedmiu wylosowanych zakładów karnych z całej Polski. Celem badań było poznanie opinii osób pozbawionych wolności na temat aktualnie wykonywanej przez nich pracy. Posłużono się autorskim kwestionariuszem ankiety. Uzyskane wyniki świadczą o tym, że skazani dostrzegają korzyści wynikające z podejmowanej przez nich pracy, m.in. zmiany w swoim zachowaniu, lepsze samopoczucie oraz poprawę relacji z innymi. Praca stanowi ważny czynnik urozmaicenia ich życia w izolacji. Czynnikiem, który w największym stopniu przyczynia się do niezadowolenia więźniów z pracy, są zbyt duże potrącenia z pensji.

Since the end of 2019 the COVID-19 pandemic has been determining the ways in which nations, institutions, and individuals function. As of now, despite a growing body of research, little is known about the effects of the pandemic in the area of psychosocial functioning of an individual. An analysis of the results of the studies conducted so far implies that the feeling of loneliness, caused or exacerbated by pandemic JOURNAL OF MODERN SCIENCE TOM 2/49/2022

Mediation in juvenile cases in Poland is a subsidiary measure vis-à-vis judicial settlement of legal conflicts. It still requires further elaboration in legal provisions and more research to indicate factors on which its effectiveness depends. A diagnosis represents a basic step towards taking up educational measures with respect to young people. Therefore, the purpose of the author’s own research was to determine the level of compensation expected by the juveniles, assuming that neutralizing techniques and a high degree of injustice in their subjective perception make them the victims, resulting in their reluctance to accept liability for acts inconsistent with legal norms. The research participants were juveniles in whose the supervision of a probation officer was requested by courts and pupils from public schools that did not present behavioural problems. The survey used the Compensation Expectation Scale developed by Agnieszka Lewicka-Zelent.

The phenomenon of migration is common in modern times. People move around the world for touristic, financial, educational, social and other reasons. One of the destination countries is Poland, in which Ukrainians, the largest contingent of all foreigners, have arrived for a number of years. Currently, the war is in progress in Poland’s neighbouring country. More than 3 million Ukrainian citizens have come to our country in search of temporary or long-term shelter. Considering the increased number of the Ukrainians, Polish people have posed the question as to whether greater delinquency where immigrants are perpetrators will constitute one of the negative outcomes. Accordingly, the decision was made to analyse the phenomenon of the migration of Ukrainians to Poland over the last few decades, as well as their engagement in delinquency, in the context of border criminology. It was also determined to review literature and statistical data concerning the phenomenon discussed. In view of the above, the prediction is made that in the immediate future, the rates in offences committed by these foreigners will increase proportionally to the number of Ukrainian immigrants.