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Social Reactions to Deviant Behavior under Special Consideration of the Non-Institutional Area (Criminal Judge Survey)

Institut für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1239 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1239
Abstract: Judgement on criminal law and criminal prosecution in the FRG by judges. Topics: attitude to reading media reports on the criminal case now being worked on; assessment of the probability of oneself becoming the victim of a criminal act; situations in which this could happen; expected development of the crime rate; rank order of the most important political tasks in the FRG; attitude to reforms; preferred role of the government as providing order for private economic interests or as welfare state with balanced social equity; perceived class conflicts in society; characterization of the life s ... more
Topics: Social behaviour and attitudes | Legislation and legal systems | Political behaviour and attitudes | Crime and law enforcement

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 11.1976 - 01.1977
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE), FRG incl. West Berlin
Universe: Criminal judges in 31 randomly selected courts (BGH, OLG, LG and district courts)
Number of Units: 294
Sampling Procedure: Quota sample
Mode of Data Collection: Oral survey with standardized questionnaire
Data Collector: INFRATEST, Munich
Analysis System(s): -
Number of Variables: 918
Notes: The questionnaire is in part identical to the questionnaire of ZA Study No.1238 in which a representative survey of the population was conducted on the same topic.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: - Institut für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
Publication year: 1983
DOI: 10.4232/1.1239
Study number: ZA1239
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1239
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Reference publications

Publications: Keßler, Erich M.: Annotierte Bibliographie zu Knowledge and Opinion about Law (KOL)-Untersuchungen. In: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 2, 1981, S. 278 -293. | Smaus, Gerlinda: Eine Erwiderung auf Blankenburg. In: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 4, 1982, S. 297 - 304. | Smaus, Gerlinda: Alltagstheorien der Kriminalität in der deutschen ... more
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Institut für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (1983). Social Reactions to Deviant Behavior under Special Consideration of the Non-Institutional Area (Criminal Judge Survey). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1239 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1239.

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