Study title

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 style of different social classes; ideal qualifications and sense of responsibility of politicians; understanding of democracy; attitude to the fixed mandate; judgement on the law-abidingness of politicians; assessment of the possibilities for representation of interests in company, municipality, party, school, university and trade union; most important characteristics for success; attitude to the economic system (scale); attitude to the necessity for knowledge of criminal law in the population; assumed (psychological and economic) primary causes for selected criminal offenses; attitude to prison sentence (scale); attitude to personal preventive measures to protect against crime or to leaving the fight against crime to the police; attitude to obeying the law; most important purpose of the penal system; most important function of criminal law; type of legal rights most effectively protected by criminal law; additional crimes that should be included in criminal law or should be removed from criminal law; attitude to resocialization (scale); psychological effects of the penal system; attitude to civil law; preference list of offenses to be prosecuted urgently; characteristic groups of persons conducting selected crimes (prejudices about the demographic characteristics of criminals); assessment of the relapse of offenders organized according to the individual crimes; judgement on...