Population and Law in the Federal Republic of Germany

Relationship of the population to law, legal institutions and jurists.

Topics: Knowledge about the responsible courts and the task of the
Federal Constitutional Court; type and frequency of court contacts;
participation in court proceedings as spectator; attitude to and
knowledge about functions of lawyers, prosecuting attorneys and judges;
image of prosecuting attorneys and judges (semantic differential);
general evaluation of court judgements; assessment of the standing of
the courts in the mass-media; reading of magazines; contact in legal
questions and distance from administration of justice; personal
contacts with a lawyer; general attitude to jurists; knowledge of trial
modalities and trial costs; expected influence of income of the
defendant as well as the quality of the lawyer on trial results;
attitude to individual judge versus judge committee; legal norm or
moral evaluation as criterion for demand for sanction, presented in
various situations such as e.g. tax evasion, illicit work, hit-and-run
driving, use of intoxicants, attempted suicide, theft, pandering and
deviant sexual behavior; judgement on the purpose of punishment and
evaluation of re-socialization measures; suitable means to reduce
crime; attitude to the penal system, the death penalty and corporal
punishment as well as divorce; political interest; attitude to social
interest associations, government and private institutions and parties;
conduct with complaints regarding authorities; attitude to more
government supervision and a prohibition of radical parties; judgement
on income and assets distribution in the FRG; personal penalties; party
preference; work satisfaction (scale); city size.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; religious
denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training;
employment; income; social origins; state; regional origins.

民众与法律、法律制度及法学家的关联。

研究主题：对管辖法院及联邦宪法法院（Federal Constitutional Court）职能的认知；法院接触的类型与频次；以旁听者身份参与法庭程序的情况；对律师、检察官与法官职能的态度及认知；针对检察官与法官的形象评价（语义分化法，semantic differential）；对法院判决的总体评价；对大众传媒中法院形象的评价；杂志阅读习惯；法律问题咨询情况及与司法活动的距离感；与律师的私人接触；对法学家的总体态度；对审判程序与诉讼成本的认知；预期被告收入与律师质量对审判结果的影响；对独任法官与合议庭的态度；以法律规范或道德评价作为追责标准的情境设置，涵盖逃税、非法务工、交通肇事逃逸、吸毒、自杀未遂、盗窃、拉皮条及性越轨行为等多种场景；对刑罚目的的评判及对再社会化矫治措施的评价；减少犯罪的有效手段；对刑罚体系、死刑、肉刑及离婚的态度；政治兴趣度；对社会利益团体、政府与私人机构及政党的态度；向主管部门投诉的行为表现；对加强政府监管及取缔极端政党的态度；对德意志联邦共和国（FRG）收入与资产分配状况的评判；个人刑罚裁量；政党偏好；工作满意度（量表形式）；城市规模。

人口统计学特征：年龄、性别、婚姻状况、子女数量、宗教教派、宗教虔诚程度、学校教育背景、职业培训情况、就业状态、收入水平、社会出身、所属联邦州、地域来源。