LATEST ON EUROJUSTIS
JUSTIS is now called EUROJUSTIS.
We have developed a suite of questions on trust in justice for the fifth European Social Survey and these are currently being piloted in the UK and Bulgaria.
The work for EUROJUSTIS pilots is well underway. The questionnaire used in these pilots will have the ESS questionnaire as its core, supplemented with other questions relevant to EUROJUSTIS.
Work Package 5 has started, with all project partners collecting country-based contextual data on legal, criminological and sociological matters relevant to the project. The contextual data will be used together with the survey-based data collected in the ESS and the EUROJUSTIS pilots.
Since our last newsletter, EUROJUSTIS has released two new deliverables on survey design and presentation of survey analysis. They can be downloaded from the EUROJUSTIS website under Documents.
The second international EUROJUSTIS conference will be held in Parma, Italy in May 2010.
THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY AND THE EUROJUSTIS PILOTS
Members of the EUROJUSTIS consortium bid successfully for space in the 2010 European Social Survey for a module on ‘Trust in Justice’. The questions for the fifth European Social Survey are currently being piloted in the UK and Bulgaria. The data from the pilots together with the results of cognitive question testing carried out in Bulgaria, Finland, Italy and the UK will be used to finalise our ESS module – which will form part of the EUROJUSTIS deliverables. The actual data collection of the ESS will take place in 30 countries at the end of this year.
The work for EUROJUSTIS pilots is also well underway. The piloting will take place in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Lithuania, France and Italy. The questionnaire used in these pilots will have the ESS questionnaire as its core, supplemented with other questions relevant to EUROJUSTIS.
Since our last newsletter, EUROJUSTIS has released two new deliverables on survey design and presentation of survey analysis. They can be downloaded from the EUROJUSTIS website under Documents.
- D3.2 Instructions for developing effective presentational tools for the new indicator of public confidence in justice
- D4.1 Question Design and Development
CURRENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES
Two rounds of cognitive interviews have been completed in the UK, Finland, Italy and Bulgaria. The data gained from these interviews have been used in the finalisation of the ESS questions. In addition, partners involved in the cognitive question testing are working on methodological articles based on the findings.
EUROJUSTIS partners are currently assembling contextual country-level data to highlight local specificities and to assist the consortium in interpreting survey-based attitudinal indicators. The contextual data include eight different “baskets” which cover indicators on demography, economic wealth and social inequalities, efficiency of justice, crime levels and punitiveness, institutional structures and legal reform, legitimacy, crime as a cultural and political issue and country-level aggregates of public concerns and institutional trust and legitimacy. These data form the Level 3 indicators of EUROJUSTIS, and the resultant dataset will be an important part of analysis of any comparative survey datasets arising from EUROJUSTIS work. In particular the Level 3 dataset will be invaluable in analysis of the ‘Trust in Justice’ module of the 2010 European Social Survey.
The second international EUROJUSTIS conference will be held in Parma, Italy, on 6-7 May 2010. The conference will assemble leading academics, other EU projects with similar interests, as well as national and EU policy makers.
Jonathan Jackson, Mike Hough and Stephen Farrall will be giving a paper “Trust in justice and the legitimacy of legal authorities: Pilot data from a major study of European public opinion” at the American Association of Public Opinion Research in Chicago, US in May 2010. |
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