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Environmental Offenses (Crimes)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1444 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1444
Abstract: Content analysis of files of environmental criminal proceedings of the
prosecuting attorney´s office.

Topics: The survey form for the content analysis encoding of the files
is largely identical to the instrument used in ZA Study No. 1443. The
differences relate only to the fact that the investigations and
completion of procedure were not conducted by the government office for
fines but by the prosecuting attorney´s office.

Demography: sex; marital status; year of birth; nationality; size of
place of residence; occupation; occupational position; social class of
respondent.

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 1978 - 1981
Geographic coverage: North Rhine-Westphalia (DE-NW) | Rhineland-Palatinate (DE-RP) | Saarland (DE-SL) | Schleswig-Holstein (DE-SH) | Berlin (DE-BE), West Berlin | Hamburg (DE-HH)
Universe: Investigation files on environmental offenses of all prosecuting attorney´s offices of the six selected states
Number of Units: 1076
Sampling Procedure: Simple random selection
Mode of Data Collection: Content analysis
Data Collector: Forschungsgruppe Umweltstrafrecht, Kriminologisches Seminar der Universitaet Bonn
Analysis System(s): SPSS
Number of Variables: 190
Notes: The original 25-percent random sample drawn with the help of the lottery drum procedure still contained 255 cases of objection to infringement of law which however were later extracted. On this see ZA Study No. 1443. The survey of files took place between September 1984 and June 1985.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Rüther, Werner - Forschungsgruppe Umweltstrafrecht, Kriminologisches Seminar der Universität Bonn
Publication year: 1985
DOI: 10.4232/1.1444
Study number: ZA1444
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1444
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Reference publications

Publications: Rüther, Werner: Ursachen für den Anstieg polizeilich festgestellter Umweltschutzdelikte. Berlin: Schmidt 1986. (Umweltforschungsplan des Bundesministers des Innern, Berichte 2/86)
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Rüther, Werner (1985). Environmental Offenses (Crimes). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1444 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1444.

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