The first article discusses the consumption of alcohol in Poland in 1985. It deals specifically with patterns of behavior, types of alcoholic beverages consumed, frequency and amount, drinking occasions, drinking at work, alcohol dependence, and abstainers and teetotallers. Antoni Bielewicz discusses the social response to the Church's appeal for sobriety in August 1984. Zofia Ostrihanska and Dobrochna Wojcik present a follow-up study on socially maladjusted youth in elementary schools in Warsaw during 1976-1978, when first surveyed, to 1985, when they were resurveyed and criminal records checked. The next article outlines the problem of and interest in political crime in Poland these days. It discusses the background of political crime and related laws in various countries as well as in Poland and discusses the questions facing Polish penal law today in regard to political criminals in the changing atmosphere in Poland. Janina Blachut discusses criminological concepts in relation to female criminals, and the effect women's lib has had on the female population in Poland. Jan Nelken deals with the problems of psychopathy and resocialization of psychopathic offenders in the history of Polish criminological thought. The final item in the issue is a document presenting the standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners and procedures for the effective implementation of those rules.