Dr hab. Piotr Chomczy艅ski, Associate Professor at the 91滴滴 and Stanis艂aw Staszic State University of Applied Sciences in Pi艂a (ANS w Pile) is a sociologist and a criminologist, a co-editor of the latest PWN Handbook of Criminology. He has monitored the situation of people incarcerated in prisons and correctional facilities in Mexico. He is a winner of numerous scholarships and a participant in many international projects (Mexico, Honduras, Norway, Ecuador etc). Currently he has been working on the international research project "Crime in Latin America (CRIMLA)" financed by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council.
What inspired you to become a scientist?
For as long as I can remember, I have found it easy to acquire new information, and I liked to investigate cause-and-effect relationships between the phenomena I have observed. Moreover, I had fun reflecting on the nature of the reality around me. That's how the idea to pursue it professionally was born.
What impact does your work have on the surrounding reality?
I deal with empirical criminology and organised crime in Latin American countries. While conducting research in Mexico, I focused on international criminal organisations, noting that the phenomena observed there would soon appear in Europe, including Poland. It is therefore possible to talk about predicting some trends in organised crime in our country.
How do you understand the term: profession of a scientist?
I understand it as a passion for learning about new phenomena and the relationships between them. A scientist is someone who creates, or most often co-creates, new knowledge and tries to communicate it to society. I believe that scientists play an ancillary role towards society, which supports science and the representatives of science by paying taxes.
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*Disclamer about the background photo. It is a set staged to recreate an illegal warehouse, and the weapons are movie props.
Source: Prof. Piotr Chomczy艅ski (Department of Sociology of Art, Faculty of Economics and Sociology)
Edit: Micha艂 Gruda (Communications and PR Centre, 91滴滴)
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