Risikosoziologie als ,Fröhliche Wissenschaft‘

Japp, Klaus P.

doi:10.1515/zfsoz-1999-0405

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“…The German thesis on a specific criminal law emerged in connection with the phenomena described by Risikosoziologie, mainly in Ulrich Beck and his Risikogesellschaft: Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (Beck 1986), and even later under the influence of Luhmann's (1991) Soziologie des Risikos (Lesitschnig 2011;Prittwitz 1993), is the so-called Risikostrafrecht ("criminal law of risk") (Albrecht 1995;Prittwitz 1993;Seelmann 1992;Wolter 1981). Although the idea of a Risikogesellschaft ("risk society") was not without its critics (Grundmann 1999a(Grundmann , 1999bJapp 1999), and still conceived as demodé in 1999 (Bora 1999, p. 10), the fact is that, in law, it is considered a true "change of perspective" (perspektivenwechsel) (Bora 1999, p. 11), being paradigmatically used in the analysis of environmental criminal law (Köck 1999;Seelmann 1992). This issue would later be extended to drug offences and terrorism (Brunhöber 2018).…”

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When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

Jiménez

2021

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The objective of this article is to answer the question of when an increase in criminal legislation is necessary. To this end, a review was conducted on the positions that deal directly or peripherally with increases in criminal legislation, with a focus on how these positions relate to increases, such as the more general positions related to “law and social change”, as well as the more specific positions related to penal inflation and “penal populism”. Special reference will be made to the expansion thesis, which, in general, has been well received in Ibero-America. In the second section of this study, the answer to the question is addressed, considering elements from the “law and social change” approach and Sutherland’s reflections on white-collar criminality.

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When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

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2021

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“…These groups involved into a risk situation are experts, decision-makers, economic entity, mass media, and population at large. Experts use a language of science when they consider probabilistic nature of coming adverse events; supervisors at different levels rely on socioeconomic and political senses 1 . Mass media retranslate information coming from other sub-__________________________  Barg А.О., Lebedeva-Nesevrya N.А., Kornilitsyna М.D., 2022 Anastasiya O.…”

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“…jects and process it trying to attract their audience with striking headings [1]. People more often appeal to the emotional component in risks, fears and anxieties; they do not understand expert language [2,3] and, as a rule, do not trust decision-makers and mass media [4].…”

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Methodical approaches to assessing subjective health risk perception by population under exposure to ambient air pollution

Barg¹,

Lebedeva-Nesevrya²,

Kornilitsyna³

2022

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There is a growing demand by the civil society for relevant information on the environment quality and related health risks. The state should be able to satisfy this demand and this makes the present research truly vital. It concentrates on correlating expert and non-expert opinions expressed when perceiving risk quantification. Our goal was to answer two following questions: 1) How does an average unprofessional person quantify a probability and severity when he or she hears certain verbal expressions that denominate them? 2) How can we possibly identify the assessment of health risks associated with environmental pollution factors given by the population in general or specific social groups? To find answers to these questions, we applied quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. The first stage involved collecting data on subjective correlation of a verbal probability scale with its numeric expression among people living in industrial cities. The second stage focused on testing the methodology for studying assessments of health risks associated with ambient air pollution given by the population/social groups. This methodology relied on the results obtained at the previous stage. We established that only 70 % of people actually correlated words with figures. We determined that experts tended to rate probabilities approximately by 10 % higher than “average people” did when it came down to such words as “Virtually certain” and “Very likely”. Such words as “Likely”, “Similarly likely” and “Unlikely” were also rated differently but with a smaller gap between the opinions. The study also provides a method for determining the public assessment of health associated with ambient air pollution. The research results give an opportunity to solve a practical task related to informing the population about health risks and to overcome a so-called language barrier between experts and ordinary people. For example, messages aimed for decision-makers can be adapted considering all the identified perception peculiarities.

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Risikosoziologie als ,Fröhliche Wissenschaft‘

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When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

Methodical approaches to assessing subjective health risk perception by population under exposure to ambient air pollution

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