Dirk Baier
Biographic Data
| ID | 216172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Baier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Baier |
| SIGNATURE | BAIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8063-7276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dimensional latent structure of internet gaming disorder symptoms in four representative surveys of German adolescents
It seems necessary to define diagnostic thresholds regarding IGD-symptom burden based on external criteria (e.g., IGD-related incapacity to work or truancy). Further studies are necessary to substantiate this result in different samples using different measurement approaches
Cultural Frames of Deviance. Muslim Religiousness and Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Violent Control of Female Behavior
Using a survey of a culturally and religiously diverse students in Germany, we investigate the influence of Muslim religiousness on violence-accepting gender role orientations. We argue that the religious frame of “fornication” (zinā) defines deviance and refers to a cultural frame of order between and within clans in non-state societies, namely the “culture of honor.” Muslim religiousness has a robust effect on violence-accepting gender role ori…
Psychometric evaluation and community norms of the PHQ-9, based on a representative German sample
Despite using a representative sample, the response rate was only 42.6%. Furthermore, diagnostic efficiency cannot be assessed as there were no clinical interviews conducted. Conclusion: The updated population based norms, which are presented for the total sample as well as separated by gender and various age-groups, provide a useful reference for clinical practice and epidemiological research
Digital Hate Speech Experiences Across Age Groups and Their Impact on Well-Being
The growing challenge of digital hate speech requires an understanding of its complexity, scale, and impact. Research on experiencing digital hate speech has so far been limited to the roles of personal victim, observer, and perpetrator, with a focus on young people. However, research on hate crimes suggests that vicarious victimization may also be relevant due to its negative impacts. In addition, the lack of knowledge about the older generation…
Gang members and extremists in Switzerland
Scholars rarely compare youth gangs members and extremists. Yet, studies of gangs can yield relevant information on extremist groups, and vice versa. This article compares youth gang members with left-wing, right-wing and Islamist extremists. The aims of this article are to determine the prevalence of gang members and extremists among young people in Switzerland, to determine the overlap, if any, between gang members and extremists, and to analys…
Does Empathy Attenuate the Criminogenic Effect of Low Self-Control in Late Life
The present study investigates whether empathy shapes the criminogenic effect of low self-control in late adulthood. Based on the assumption that the capacity to understand and share the thoughts and emotions of other people moderates the significance of the capability to consider the distant consequences of behaviour on oneself, we posit that poor self-control is less consequential among senior citizens of high empathy. The results of a postal s…
Honor in the Wild
Culture of honor" means that individuals deter others by signaling their commitment to violent retaliation. We develop a multilevel explanation of cross-level interdependence of honor and violence. According to our concept of system-level honor, a social system is loaded with deterrence signaling if culture of honor is highly prevalent in the system. In line with the Smith and Price (1973, in Nature,https://www.nature.com/articles/246015a0) model…
Covid-19 im Strafvollzug
Combating the COVID-19 pandemic in prisons was a major challenge. The possibility of ensuring social distancing is small, many inmates are regarded as a vulnerable group and staff cannot be dispensed with. Worldwide, there are reports from prisons of an enormous number of cases. This was not the case in Swiss prisons. Here, the COVID-19 pandemic was managed well. This book presents results from a nationwide study in prisons on the handling and ma…
Support for Radical Left Ideologies Among Youth in Switzerland
This article aims to better understand the determinants which support the ideologies of the Radical Left among young people in Switzerland. The analyses presented in the article are based on a survey on the theme of political radicalism which has been carried out in secondary schools on level II. The findings showed that economic and political deprivation, as well as a high degree of anti-authoritarianism, increase the probability of adhering to …
Who beats their partner, and who beats their schoolmates? A comparison of teen dating and school physical violence perpetration in Lower Saxony, Germany
Teen dating violence (TDV) and school violence (SV) are two major social problems in adolescence. Until recently, the antecedents of both TDV and SV have been analyzed largely independently of each other. This study analyses and compares the determinants of both TDV and SV, with a focus on physical violence. Based on a comprehensive survey of ninth-grade adolescents at the average age of 15 years (N = 3,800) conducted in the German federal state …
A global analysis of the impact of Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime
The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We conducted interrupted time series analyses to assess the impact of stay-at-home restrictions on different types of crime in each city. Our findings s…
Verschwörungsmentalität und Extremismus – Befunde aus Befragungsstudien in der Schweiz
Im Beitrag wird einerseits der Zusammenhang zwischen der Verschwörungsmentalität und gewaltbereiten extremistischen Einstellungen untersucht. Andererseits werden Einflussfaktoren der Verschwörungsmentalität betrachtet, wobei angenommen wird, dass anomische Einstellungen, eine Distanz zum politischen System und Autoritarismus die Zustimmung zu einer Verschwörungsmentalität erhöhen. Zur Prüfung der Annahmen wird auf zwei Befragungsstudien zurückgeg…
Kultur der Ehre und Religion. Gewaltakzeptierende Geschlechterrollenorientierungen muslimischer Jugendlicher
Anhand einer groß angelegten Schülerbefragung wird der Einfluss muslimischen Glaubens auf gewaltakzeptierende Geschlechterrollenorientierungen bei Jugendlichen untersucht. Im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit wird zunächst die Bedeutung einer religiösen Norm erörtert, die schriftlich kodifiziert ist: das Verbot von „Unzucht" (zinā). Wir argumentieren auf Basis religionssoziologischer und anthropologischer Überlegungen, dass diese Norm zwar mit dem al…
Importation and deprivation factors influencing teacher‐targeted aggression among secondary school students in Germany
Relying on an importation and deprivation framework, the study assessed a variety of risk factors associated with self‐reported teacher‐targeted aggression among ninth grade students ( n = 5,673). Using a cross‐sectional school survey conducted in one German federal state, two forms of teacher‐targeted aggression were assessed: verbal (insulting, threatening, and mocking) and physical (beating and pushing) aggression. Every ninth student reported…
Self-control and offending in late adulthood. Investigating self-control's interaction with opportunities and criminal associations in advanced age
Prevalence and Correlates of Cyberbullying Perpetration. Findings from a German Representative Student Survey
Based on a survey of 9512 ninth-grade students conducted in Lower Saxony in 2013, this paper examines the prevalence of cyberbullying perpetration and the correlates of this behavior. Binary logistic multilevel regression was used in order to analyze correlates of sexual and psychological cyberbully perpetration. In the preceding semester, 2.4% of the adolescents were perpetrators of psychological cyberbullying and 0.4% bullied someone online sex…
Differential Influences of Parenting Dimensions and Parental Physical Abuse during Childhood on Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents
Besides other explanatory variables, parenting styles and parental violence might also be responsible for setting a path towards overweight/obesity in childhood. While this association has consistently been observed for adults, findings for adolescents still remain scarce and inconsistent. Therefore, the goal of this study is to add evidence on this topic for children and adolescents. Analyses are based on a sample of 1729 German, ninth-grade stu…
Representative Studies on Victimisation
Representative research on crime rates and their trends in Germany is sparse. A major research focus at the Criminology Research Institute in Lower Saxony, which is where all the papers compiled in this volume come from, is on victimisation. In recent years, research here was carried out on risk factors of victimisation, on vicitimsation of different population groups and on the consequences of victimisation. All the papers in this book centre on…
Substance consumption in adolescents with and without an immigration background
It cannot be confirmed that adolescents with an immigration background generally show less harmful patterns of consumption. Distinctions have to be made regarding the substance, the adolescent's country of origin, and the level of assimilation or segregation of the adolescent and his/her family
The School as an Influencing Factor of Truancy
As previous research has shown, truants have a higher risk of becoming delinquent. However, the causes of truancy are only seldom analyzed in criminological research. Since truancy is a school related behavior, it can be assumed that school factors play a major role in causing it. Using a German wide representative sample of almost 40,000 pupils of the ninth grade (mean age: 15 years; 50.3 percent male) from 1,200 schools several school factors a…
Rising punitivity in times of economic crisis? Assessing the relationship between the economic situation and the longing for harsher sanctioning
This paper analyses if the economic situation is related to punitivity, that is, if adverse of economic patterns go along with a longing for harsher sanctions in the population. Several scholars have postulated that increased economic insecurities and anxieties may lead to the preference for harsher sanctioning. Empirical research, however, could not confirm the link between individual economic conditions and punitivity. We therefore introduce th…
Prevalence of internet gaming disorder in German adolescents
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is included as a condition for further study in Section 3 of the DSM-5. Nine criteria were proposed with a threshold of five or more criteria recommended for diagnosis. The aims of this study were to assess how the specific criteria contribute to diagnosis and to estimate prevalence rates of IGD based on DSM-5 recommendations. DESIGN: Large-scale, state-representative school survey using a stand…
Kriminalität im Jahr 2020
Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland
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Jugendliche in Niedersachsen. Ergebnisse des Niedersachsensurveys 2013 und 2015
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Parent-Child Value Similarity
Reporting a study of German 2-child families, the article focuses on a neglected issue in value transmission studies: contemporaneous societal context. Parent-child value similarity depends not only on family characteristics but also on zeitgeist, the modal value climate of a society. To evaluate the role of zeitgeist in value transmission, differences in parent-child value similarity between families agreeing and disagreeing with the zeitgeist a…
A global analysis of the impact of Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime
The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We conducted interrupted time series analyses to assess the impact of stay-at-home restrictions on different types of crime in each city. Our findings s…
Das Deprivationskonzept in der Rechtsextremismusforschung
Die EU-Osterweiterung als Mobilisierungsschub für ethnozentrische Einstellungen? / Does the Eastern Europe Enlargement of the European Union Mobilize Ethnocentric Attitudes
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob die im Mai 2004 vollzogene EU-Osterweiterung in Deutschland ethnozentrische Einstellungen aktivieren könnte. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass der mit diesem Schritt ausgelöste beschleunigte soziale Wandel auf der Individualebene zu Bedrohungsgefühlen führt. Die Existenz wahrgenommener Bedrohungen ist entsprechend neuerer Studien aus dem Bereich der Vorurteilsforschung ein starker Prädiktor fü…
Social Change as a Source of Macrosocial Stress
The paper reports a representative study of inhabitants (age > 13) of the common border regions of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Based on Stephan and Stephan's integrated threat theory three hypotheses are tested, namely that (1) the experience of threat due to the EU enlargement leads to a higher prevalence of nationalist attitudes, that (2) positive intercultural attitudes lower the impact of enlargement-related threat on nationalism…
Self-control and offending in late adulthood. Investigating self-control's interaction with opportunities and criminal associations in advanced age
Kultur der Ehre und Religion. Gewaltakzeptierende Geschlechterrollenorientierungen muslimischer Jugendlicher
Anhand einer groß angelegten Schülerbefragung wird der Einfluss muslimischen Glaubens auf gewaltakzeptierende Geschlechterrollenorientierungen bei Jugendlichen untersucht. Im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit wird zunächst die Bedeutung einer religiösen Norm erörtert, die schriftlich kodifiziert ist: das Verbot von „Unzucht" (zinā). Wir argumentieren auf Basis religionssoziologischer und anthropologischer Überlegungen, dass diese Norm zwar mit dem al…
Experten des Alltags. Die Wiederentdeckung des praktischen Wissens
Die EU-Erweiterung als Herausforderung für nationalstaatliche Integrationsmodelle
Es gibt nur wenige wissenschaftliche und außerwissenschaftliche Bereiche, in denen das Wort ‘Integration’ derart häufig fallt, wie wenn es um die Europäische Union und ihren aktuellen Erweiterungsprozess geht. Europäische Integration findet demnach bereits seit einem halben Jahrhundert statt, d.h. seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist eine „friedliche und freiwillige Annäherung bzw. Zusammenführung von Gesellschaften, Staaten und Volkswirtscha…
Die EU-Osterweiterung als Mobilisierungsschub für ethnozentrische Einstellungen? / Does the Eastern Europe Enlargement of the European Union Mobilize Ethnocentric Attitudes
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob die im Mai 2004 vollzogene EU-Osterweiterung in Deutschland ethnozentrische Einstellungen aktivieren könnte. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass der mit diesem Schritt ausgelöste beschleunigte soziale Wandel auf der Individualebene zu Bedrohungsgefühlen führt. Die Existenz wahrgenommener Bedrohungen ist entsprechend neuerer Studien aus dem Bereich der Vorurteilsforschung ein starker Prädiktor fü…
Das Deprivationskonzept in der Rechtsextremismusforschung
Mobiler Alltag
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die mit der Gestaltung von Wegen zu tun haben. Nicht nur die Verkehrsplanung beschert uns längere oder kürzere, bequemere oder beschwerlichere Wege, auch der Arbeitsmarkt, die Bildung, das Internet, der Tourismus, die Freizeit oder der Einkauf, d.h. die Bedürfnisse des Alltags. Hochmoderne kommunikative Gesellschaften sind mobil. Ziel des Buches ist die Sensibilisierung für diesen Alltag, dessen Gestaltung "Beweg…
Literaturbesprechungen
Europa auf dem Weg nach rechts?
Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Konsequenzen der EU-Osterweiterung nicht auf der Ebene von politischen Institutionen oder ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen, sondern versucht, sozialpsychologische Auswirkungen genauer zu betrachten. Dabei stehen Desintegration, Ängste und Bedrohungserleben als potentielle Katalysatoren rechter Einstellungen im Zentrum des Interesses. Repräsentative Studien in Deutschland und in den Grenzregionen Polens und der …
Social Change as a Source of Macrosocial Stress
The paper reports a representative study of inhabitants (age > 13) of the common border regions of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Based on Stephan and Stephan's integrated threat theory three hypotheses are tested, namely that (1) the experience of threat due to the EU enlargement leads to a higher prevalence of nationalist attitudes, that (2) positive intercultural attitudes lower the impact of enlargement-related threat on nationalism…
Parent-Child Value Similarity
Reporting a study of German 2-child families, the article focuses on a neglected issue in value transmission studies: contemporaneous societal context. Parent-child value similarity depends not only on family characteristics but also on zeitgeist, the modal value climate of a society. To evaluate the role of zeitgeist in value transmission, differences in parent-child value similarity between families agreeing and disagreeing with the zeitgeist a…
Europa Auf Dem Weg Nach Rechts?
The socialization of hierarchic self-interest
The article reports research on family socialization of dominance values among adolescents. Dominance values were studied as expressed in Hierarchic Self-Interest (HSI), a value pattern that is typical for highly competitive market-oriented societies and has negative behavioural consequences. In analyzing socialization, the study concentrates on authoritarian and achievement-focused parenting, as well as structural and ideological predictors ther…
Violent Behavior of Juveniles in a Multiethnic Society
Using data from a large school survey based on 14,301 cases, we examined several risk factors, such as low self-control, culture of honor, and social bonds, for juvenile violence among immigrant and native-born Germans. Our empirical analyses indicate that violent peer networks and low self-control are more relevant for the explanation of juvenile violence than culture of honor. Moreover, these risk factors are also a consequence of the spatial c…
Mediennutzung als Ursache der schlechteren Schulleistungen von Jungen
An der Diagnose scheint kein Zweifel mehr zu bestehen: Mädchen erzielen, in Deutschland wie in anderen Ländern, mittlerweile bessere Schulleistungen und legen häufiger höherrangige Schulabschlüsse ab als Jungen. Quenzel und Hurrelmann (2010) belegen dies eindrucksvoll für drei Bereiche: Erstens betrug der Anteil der Jungen, die die Schule ohne Hauptschulabschluss verlassen, im Jahr 2006 9,7 Prozent, der Anteil der Mädchen hingegen nur 5,9 Prozent…
Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in adolescents
Binge drinking is a common problem behavior in German adolescents. Obviously adolescents with rural residence have fewer alternatives for engaging in interesting leisure activities than adolescents living in cities. This might be one reason for the more problematic consumption patterns there. Common expectations concerning drinking behavior of adolescents of certain cultural backgrounds ('migrants with Russian background drink more'/'migrants fro…
Wer Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten
St Dtische Armutsquartiere Kriminelle Lebenswelten
Polizeibeamte als Opfer von Gewalt
Gewaltübergriffe auf Polizeibeamte vor allem im Rahmen von Demonstrationen oder Fußballspielen stehen in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit. Aktuelle Daten zum Ausmaß, zur Entwicklung und zu den Folgen der Gewaltübergriffe existieren für Deutschland allerdings nicht. Aus diesem Grund wurde im Jahr 2010 in zehn Bundesländern eine Befragung von über 20.000 Polizeibeamten durchgeführt. Mit dieser lässt sich erstens nachz…
Predictors of binge drinking in adolescents
Background As epidemiological surveys have shown, binge drinking is a constant and wide-spread problem behavior in adolescents. It is not rare to find that more than half of all adolescents engage in this behavior when assessing only the last 4 weeks of time independent of the urbanity of the region they live in. There have been several reviews on predictors of substance consumption in adolescents in general, but there has been less high quality …
Kriminalität Im Jahr 2020
Kriminalität Im Jahr 2020
Städtische Armutsquartiere - Kriminelle Lebenswelten?
Kriminalität im Jahr 2020
Prevalence of internet gaming disorder in German adolescents
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is included as a condition for further study in Section 3 of the DSM-5. Nine criteria were proposed with a threshold of five or more criteria recommended for diagnosis. The aims of this study were to assess how the specific criteria contribute to diagnosis and to estimate prevalence rates of IGD based on DSM-5 recommendations. DESIGN: Large-scale, state-representative school survey using a stand…
Representative Studies on Victimisation
Representative research on crime rates and their trends in Germany is sparse. A major research focus at the Criminology Research Institute in Lower Saxony, which is where all the papers compiled in this volume come from, is on victimisation. In recent years, research here was carried out on risk factors of victimisation, on vicitimsation of different population groups and on the consequences of victimisation. All the papers in this book centre on…
Substance consumption in adolescents with and without an immigration background
It cannot be confirmed that adolescents with an immigration background generally show less harmful patterns of consumption. Distinctions have to be made regarding the substance, the adolescent's country of origin, and the level of assimilation or segregation of the adolescent and his/her family
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