Courts dealing with criminals

courts

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 90. In general, do you think the courts in this area deal too harshly or not harshly enough with criminals?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	about right	don't know	no answer	not harshly enough	too harshly	iap	not available in this year	Total
1972	265	173	4	1066	105	-	-	1613
1973	196	138	10	1092	68	-	-	1504
1974	72	51	8	580	42	731	-	1484
1975	144	104	7	1174	61	-	-	1490
1976	148	89	5	1210	47	-	-	1499
1977	123	84	3	1268	52	-	-	1530
1978	111	80	4	1297	40	-	-	1532
1980	112	87	3	1218	48	-	-	1468
1982	73	36	6	760	48	937	-	1860
1983	103	71	4	1363	58	-	-	1599
1984	161	63	13	1192	44	-	-	1473
1985	138	51	9	1284	52	-	-	1534
1986	117	53	3	1252	45	-	-	1470
1987	218	101	7	1417	76	-	-	1819
1988	145	71	4	1204	57	-	-	1481
1989	135	76	-	1285	41	-	-	1537
1990	124	65	5	1131	47	-	-	1372
1991	169	76	9	1202	61	-	-	1517
1993	156	88	8	1300	54	-	-	1606
1994	226	135	19	2534	78	-	-	2992
1996	310	197	16	2246	135	-	-	2904
1998	372	179	11	2095	175	-	-	2832
2000	436	240	19	1913	209	-	-	2817
2002	240	83	4	919	126	1393	-	2765
2004	266	90	3	861	120	1472	-	2812
2006	638	167	6	1902	279	1518	-	4510
2008	388	147	7	1259	222	-	-	2023
2010	341	157	10	1269	267	-	-	2044
2012	380	180	17	1128	269	-	-	1974
2014	484	207	20	1451	376	-	-	2538
2016	460	294	22	1578	513	-	-	2867
2018	357	276	16	1253	446	-	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	298	241	14	933	308	1750	-	3544
2024	209	129	5	467	128	2371	-	3309
Total	8115	4279	301	44103	4697	10172	4032	75699

Values

• 1 too harshly

• 2 not harshly enough

• 3 about right

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook