Krystyna Daszkiewicz (12 March 1924 â 17 February 2025) was a Polish law professor, criminalist and psychologist.
The daughter of a Greater Poland insurgent and participant of the Polish-Bolshevik war. During World War II, during the German occupation, she was held in a "transition camp" at à Âorzeà Âska Street in Toruà Â. From 1941 she lived in the General Government, where she was deported together with her parents. She studied at the Junior High School named after Adam Czartoryski as part of secret teaching. She was active in the Home Army from 1942 to 1945. At the end of the war, she served in the ranks of the Home Army partisan unit under the command of "Lechita". Before the entry of the Red Army (with the arrival of the Eastern Front) in 1944, it was involved in the creation of the Polish administration in Kazimierz Dolny. After the war, she passed the secondary school leaving examination at the Secondary School named after Stefan à »eromski in Toruà Â. She started her studies in law at the Faculty of Law of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruà Â. During her studies, she was successful in law students' oratorical competitions and became an assistant at the Department of Criminal Law of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in the fourth year of her studies. In 1951 she defended her doctorate. After the Faculty of Law at the Toruà  University was closed, she moved to the Faculty of Law of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznaà Â, where she was a junior assistant, a senior assistant and an adjunct professor. In 1959 she became an associate professor, in 1971 she obtained the title of associate professor, and in 1977 the title of full professor. During martial law in 1981âÂÂ1983, she was a defense attorney in lawsuits involving students and university employees. She published in the magazine "Palestra".
The main topics of Krystyna Daszkiewicz's scientific work were: criminal law, social pathology, criminal liability for German war crimes and crimes against humanity, crimes of totalitarian regimes, abuse of power, issues of criminal law reform in Poland, the case of the abduction and murder of priest Jerzy Popieà Âuszko (she was an observer of the entire trial of the priest's murderers conducted in Toruà  and Warsaw).
Her husband was prof. conv. Dr. hab. Wiesà Âaw Daszkiewicz, also a researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University (1927âÂÂ2013), with whom she had two sons: Paweà  (doctor, director of the Karol Jonscher Clinical Hospital in Poznaà Â) and Piotr.