What is the picture of crime structure in the eyes of the Czech public? Does it correspond to reality, or is it distorted by the influence of media news or personal experience? And what is the notion of the success rate of the police when investigating some criminal acts? Is it rather underestimated or on the contrary overestimated by the public? These are some of the issues dealt with by the March survey, carried out by Public Opinion Research Centre.
As expected, the idea of the proportion of criminal acts in question in the overall crime figures differs quite significantly from official figures. Simultaneously, the notion of crime structure does not conform to the real situation much. It is has become evident that what are in reality isolated acts, such as murder or rape, are significantly numerically overestimated in the eyes of the public. The idea in relation to guessing the success rate of the police is no more exact either...
