Racketeering and Restaurateurs in Germany. Perceived Deficiencies in Crime Control and Effects on Confidence in Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Ohlemacher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-76 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/42.1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W2155766555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
Systems theory defines trust in the functioning of societal subsystems as a necessary mechanism for reducing societal complexity. However, is trust as an attitude stable even when being massively disappointed? The article presented looks at specific types of crime and offences said to be challenges to the criminal justice system's task of crime reduction and containment, and at the consequences for the citizen's trust (a) in democracy and (b) in the state monopoly on the use of coercive force. In a nationwide telephone survey restaurateurs, a group said to be under special threat of crime, were interviewed in Germany in the winter of 1995/1996 (n = 2,378). The main focus of the interviews was on extortion and corruption, both hypothesized as being precarious for trust in the systems responsible for crime containment. Embedded into the framework of a structural‐constructionist theoretical perspective, the findings point to a relatively greater influence exerted by frames of interpretation (i.e. perceived victimization rates) rather than structures (i.e. direct or indirect experiences of the offences). However, the overall absolute stability of trust is interpreted to mean that a normative mode of coping with disappointment is dominant, following conceptual suggestions made by systems theory.
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2015 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |