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  Role of Government IV, ISSP, Britain, 2006

Year: 2006
Module: Role_of_government
Variable: JUSTICE

Question: All systems of justice make mistakes, but which do you think is worse ..
to convict an innocent person OR to let a guilty person go free?

Index to tables on this page

  1. % of men and women
  2. % of people of different ages.
  3. % of people of different religions.

Overall Results %
Convict innocent person52
Let guilty person go free30
Cannot choose18


Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Convict innocent person 56 48
Let guilty person go free 27 32
Cannot choose 17 20

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Convict innocent person 56 43 45 52 58 60
Let guilty person go free 30 30 31 29 28 29
Cannot choose 14 26 24 20 14 11

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Convict innocent person 50 53 50
Let guilty person go free 29 31 30
Cannot choose 21 15 20

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