This book has been prepared by a team of authors affiliated to the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). Teresa Dukiet-Nagórska is a professor at the University of Silesia and head of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. Her research interests include in particular problems of substantive criminal law and medical law.

• Contents: Leszek Wilk/Piotr Zawiejski: The Concept of Restorative Justice – Piotr Zawiejski: Damage and its Redress in Criminal and Civil Law: The Doctrinal and Case-Law Position to Date – Teresa Dukiet-Nagórska: An Attempt to Assess the Manner in which Damage and its Redress can be Understood from the Point of view of Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law – Dominika Bek: The Mediation Settlement as a Directive of the Level of Sanction – Olga Sitarz: Active Repentance at the Stage of Preparation for or Attempt at an Offence and Restorative Justice – Olga Sitarz/Leszek Wilk: Post-Perpetration Active Repentance and Restorative Justice – Anna Jaworska-Wieloch: Selected Aspects of Enforcement of Judicial Decisions Awarding Redress of a Damage – Leszek Wilk: The Concept of Restorative Justice in Fiscal Penal Law – Jakub Hanc: The Idea of Restorative Justice: An Attempt at a Comparative Analysis.