Victimological Survey, October 2003https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/YXIUNBCentre for Crime Prevention in LithuaniaLithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2025-12-232026-03-05T07:35:11ZThe purpose of the study: to identify victimisation experience of the Lithuanian citizens and investigate their attitude towards the criminal justice. Major investigated questions: Respondents evaluated the human rights protection in Lithuania (i.e. fair case investigation in the courts; protection of crime victims; protection of women from domestic violence; the immunity of property; the child's right to live free from violence and compulsion; protection of convicts and immunity of private life). Respondents were asked about anxiety when they are thinking about the personal future and future of other people (friends, relatives, acquaintances, the state); anxiety related to the loss of job, worsened health status, crime, worsened family relations, lack of income; anxiety because of the increasing aggressive behaviour of youth, prevalence of drug addiction, terrorism, HIV prevalence, corruption and increasing criminality; feeling of security or insecurity in streets, public transport, workplace/schools, shops, mass events, restaurants, in the nature, in own home; feeling of security or insecurity during day time, at night, where there are many/few people, among friends, in the company of strange people, where there are or are no police officers or security officers. As well respondents assessed the level of risk of becoming a victim of crime in the living environment of a respondent, in Lithuania, other Baltic States, Central European countries, Western European countries, the United States, Russia and CIS countries. They were asked to identify the most insecure Lithuanian regional centres regarding primes and security/insecurity feeling during summer time in the Lithuanian resorts: Palanga, Neringa, Druskininkai, near lakes, in the gardens, forests. It was investigated respondents' opinion about insecurity/security of crimes and criminal faults to public life (crimes against humanity and war crimes; crimes against the independence of the Lithuanian state, territorial integrity and constitutional order; against human health and life; personal life, honour and dignity; property; intellectual and industrial property; informatics; property rights and property interests; civil service and public interests, traffic safety, memory of the departed etc.) and they were asked to evaluate the work of the Government, the Seimas, President, political parties, media, Special Investigation Service (SIS), police, courts, prosecution service, imprisonment institutions and non-governmental organisations in reducing the number of crimes in Lithuania. The efficiency of punishment / penalties in reducing crimes in society (deprivation of public rights; the right to do a certain job or engage in a certain activity; public works; fine; restriction of freedom; arrest; fixed-term deprivation of freedom; fear of death; physical punishment) was assessed and opinion on application of penalties for murder, rape, bodily injury, robbery, thefts, bribery and hooliganism was identified. Also respondents answered following questions: have they/their relatives or neighbours become victims of crime during the recent 12 months / during the recent 5 years; the place of the experienced crime (becoming a victim) during the recent 5 years: residential area, other Lithuanian city or village, foreign country; frequency of becoming a victim of crimes (rape; bodily injury; robbery; thefts; bribery; hooliganism) personally by a respondent, relatives or neighbours during the recent 5 years; the last experienced crime during the recent 5 years (rape; bodily injury; robbery; thefts; bribery; and hooliganism), its place (residential area; other Lithuanian city or village; foreign country); the first institution respondents applied to straight after a crime (police, relatives, neighbours, media, workplace etc.); ways for applying to the police: by phone, via mediators, visit to the police Office; assistance of police officers after application to the police; behaviour of law enforcement officers who investigated a crime. Respondents assessed the level of importance of various sources of information on crimes and criminal justice in Lithuania; evaluated their own knowledge about the National Programme for Control and Prevention of Crimes in Lithuania and expressed opinion on implementation of the National Programme for Control and Prevention of Crimes in Lithuania. Socio-demographic characteristics: gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, type of household, monthly income per family member, place of residence, region.Social Sciencesanxietyassaultborder controlschild abusechildren's rightscorruptioncourtscrime preventioncrime victimscrimes against humanitycrimes against propertydata breachesdiscriminationdrug offencesfear of crimeforgerygovernmentheads of statehomicidehostage takinghuman settlementhuman traffickingintellectual property lawlegislaturemass medianational securityperjurypersonal safetypolice servicespolitical partiesprison systemprivate voluntary organizationsprosecution serviceprostitutionpublic order offencespunishmentright to justiceright to privacyright to propertyrights of prisonersriotsrobberysexual offencessitesterrorismthefttraffickingwomen's rightEnglishLithuanian2003-10-31Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Baublytė, Marė (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Kublickienė, Lilija (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Sviklas, Eduardas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Štreimikis, Antanas (Centre for Information Technology Implementation, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5594-0580])Šarkutė, Ligita (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-1835-0186])Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])2008-04-172003-10-232003-10-312003-10-232003-10-31Survey dataLithuaniaThe description of the dataset (metadata) is freely and openly available to both registered and unregistered users of the LiDA Dataverse repository under the terms of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)</a>. 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