Results of Victim Survey Research in a Small Greek Town With Particular Reference to Attitudes Towards Crime and the Criminal Justice System (From Victims and Criminal Justice, P 731-762, 1991, Gunther Kaiser Helmut Kury, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-132477)

• NCJ Number: 132504
• Author(s): A Pitsela
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 32 pages
• Sale Source: Max-Planck-Institute Fur Auslandisches und Internationales Strafrecht
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: Germany (Unified)

Annotation

The victim survey research among the adult population in a Greek small town (5,000 inhabitants) was conducted through personal interviews at the beginning of September 1983.

Abstract

The study was designed as a pretest to research the attitudes toward crime, crime control, fear of crime, and the victimization experiences of a target group (Greeks in Greece) with approximately similar sociocultural features as the Greeks in Stuttgart, West Germany, before their emigration. The questionnaire, which was identical with the one used in the comparative study, was administered in a nonsystematic random selection to 83 persons at least 18 years old. The key issues addressed in the survey were the experience of victimization, fear of crime, attitudes toward criminal justice agencies, and attitudes toward the treatment of crime and criminals. Thirteen percent of the respondents had been victimized during the previous year. The rate of property offenses and violent offenses was low. Slightly more than one-half of the victimizations were not reported to the police within the 12 months preceding the interview. The fear of crime evidenced among respondents was out of proportion to the victimization rate. Feelings of insecurity were particularly strong among women. The attitudes of men toward the criminal justice system were less favorable than those of women. 64 references