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

Victimization and judgement on the state under the rule of law as well
as the criminal prosecution authorities.

Topics: interest in media reports on crime and criminal acts; attitude
to increased reporting on crime in the media; assumed probability of
oneself becoming victim of a criminal act; expected development of the
crime rate in the FRG; most important tasks of the government; attitude
to reforms; preferred role of the government as providing order for
private economic interests or as welfare state with the goal of
providing balanced social equity; perceived class conflicts in society;
ideal qualifications and sense of responsibility of politicians;
understanding of democracy; attitude to the fixed mandate;
possibilities of representation of interests in company, municipality,
party, school and trade union; most important characteristics for
success; attitude to the economic system (scale); naming of gaps in
knowledge in the legal sector; attitude to punishment (scale); attitude
to personal preventive measures to protect from crime or to leaving
combating crime to the police; attitude to obeying the law; attitude to
resocializing prisoners (scale); preferred sequence of prosecuting
crimes in view of the work overload of the police and courts;
characteristic groups of persons for conducting selected crimes
(prejudice about the demographic characteristics of criminals);
hypothetical change in conduct regarding an acquaintance who has
committed a criminal offence; conduct when personally affected by a
crime (split: organized according to social origins of the culprit);
reporting conduct; assumed reasons for increased committing of criminal
offences by members of the underclass; assessment of the degree of
relapse of offenders, organized according to different crimes; attitude
to observance of laws (scale); personal measurement of punishment and
judgement on the deserving of punishment of selected crimes (split:
example cases); attitude to the formalities in a criminal case (scale);
professional or private contacts with civil service as well as
judiciary; attitude to administration of justice in general as well as
the judiciary and civil judiciary in particular (scale third-party
image); assumed differences in the administration of justice depending
on social origins of defendant; assessment of equal opportunities in a
personal process against an insurance company, a political functionary,
one´s employer, a car driver and a policeman; point in time after which
someone is to be seen as guilty; assumed reasons for a reduced
persecution of white collar crime by the courts; work satisfaction
(scale); local residency; type of city; memberships; use of motor
vehicles.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
training; occupation; employment; number of recipients of income;
household income; household size; household composition; respondent is
head of household; party membership; party inclination; local
residency; degree of urbanization; union membership.

Interviewer rating: length of interview; weekday of interview.