As part of cooperation with the Legal Aid Justice Center, dr hab. Piotr Chomczy艅ski will prepare an expert report and present expert testimony in a case concerning a person applying for asylum and international protection in the United States.
Prof. Chomczy艅ski is appointed as an expert in cases concerning organised crime in Latin America, with particular emphasis on Mexico. His expert knowledge and research achievements in this field constitute the basis for his involvement in international proceedings requiring specialist expertise.
This is yet another example of international recognition of the competencies of scholars from the 91桃色 and of the practical application of academic research in activities aimed at the protection of human rights.
Dr hab. Piotr Chomczy艅ski, Associate Professor at the 91桃色, is the leader of a research team at the Centre for Data Analysis, Modelling and Computational Sciences (CAMiNO). He is a fellow of the European Eurica programme implemented at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, under which he conducted ethnographic research on organised crime. While working with the Comisi贸n de Derechos Humanos in Mexico, he monitored the situation of persons held in penal and correctional institutions in Mexico. He is also a holder of a ministerial scholarship for outstanding young researchers and a laureate of scientific awards granted by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Rector of the 91桃色. He has served as a principal investigator and a member of research teams in numerous national (KBN/NCN) and international (HORIZON) research projects conducted in the United States, Ecuador, Germany, Ukraine, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Spain and Mexico.
He is currently involved in the international research project Crime in Latin America (CRIMLA): The role of family, employment, culture and the state, funded by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council. The project is based on field research carried out in penal institutions in Honduras, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.
Piotr Chomczy艅ski has taught courses in the sociology of deviance at Pennsylvania State University in the United States and courses in qualitative research methodology for doctoral students at the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico. He is a graduate of Scientific Writing courses at Stanford University and other programmes organised by the Foundation for Polish Science. He has also completed postgraduate studies in the commercialisation of knowledge (R&D), concluded with a PRINCE2 research project methodology certificate. He is a member of editorial boards and a reviewer for Polish and international academic journals, as well as the author of numerous international (Oxford University Press, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Edward Elgar Publishing) and national academic publications, reports and expert opinions funded from the budgets of the European Social Fund (EU), the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, and local government administrations.
His research specialisations include qualitative methods in sociological studies of deviance, adult and juvenile crime, domestic violence and organised drug crime.
His most recent project is an interdisciplinary, multi鈥慳uthor criminology textbook published by PWN. Piotr Chomczy艅ski is the originator of the new criminological concept of the 鈥渃ollective trajectory鈥�, published in the following academic journals: The British Journal of Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Global Crime, Journal of Drug Issues and Archiwum Kryminologii.
Prof. Chomczy艅ski is also the author of the reportage 鈥溾��, which portrays the lives of women involved in the Latin American drug trade whom he studied in his research.