Preventing and Combating Violence (January - February 1989)

Attitude of the population of the Federal Republic to political
violence and use of violence.

Topics: interest in public matters and politics; most important
political goals; description of violence (semantic differential);
justification for violence in politics; political participation and
attitude to participation in demonstrations, house occupation, wild
strikes and acts of violence (scale); classification of the
above-mentioned situations as acts of violence; judgement on use of
violence from left and right; party preference (rank order procedure);
willingness to participate in acts of violence at demonstrations;
general blame of police or participants at violent demonstrations;
forms of political protest, which the respondent generally considers
meaningful, which he himself has already carried out and which he
perhaps would perform (scale); attitude to selected political groups
and movements; attitude to use of police, the flood of asylum-seekers
and to violent demonstrators; attitude to change of social order;
judgement on the Federal Government and the political system in the
Federal Republic; satisfaction with democracy; feeling of political
effectiveness (scale); unconditional legal requirement for the police
regarding violent persons at demonstrations; attitude to the death
penalty; attitude to prohibition of parties hostile to the
constitution; self-classification on a left-right continuum;
postmaterialism index; party inclination; psychological
self-characterization (scale); victimization; friends as victims of an
act of violence and type of violence suffered; perceived increase of
acts of violence in the Federal Republic and reasons for this
assessment; membership in clubs and organizations and functions
accepted; self-assessment of social class; religiousness; behavior at
the polls in the last Federal Parliament election.

Also encoded were: date of interview; ZIP (postal) code.