Dr. Günther Grewe
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„Straßenverkehrsdelinquenz und Marginalität“

Untersuchungen zur institutionellen Regelung von Verhalten

The author examines the possibilities and limitations of institutional regulation of behavior in the context of road traffic. The phenomenon of marginalization and marginality is explored, and the author notes with surprise that all social groups have „marginal“ positions from which they derive their self-understanding. Therefore, marginalization is ubiquitous and relative within social groups, including in communities of faith and among criminals.

The work is based on the premise of the social construction of reality, which suggests that while common sense allows people to navigate social reality, it also complicates the analysis of how social reality is constructed. With this phenomenological position in mind, the author attempts to create a second-order construction of reality – that is, a construction of constructions of social reality by actors in the social sphere.

The existing traffic regulation framework primarily views itself as a response to human failure. This approach results in a simplistic one-factor model of causality for undesirable outcomes, namely traffic accidents. A criminological analysis of traffic regulation reveals a more fundamental critique of the assumptions that explicitly and implicitly govern human behavior in traffic.

To this end, the author proposes two theses that challenge traditional views of traffic and traffic regulation: the first posits that automobile traffic is a system of person-object interactions that necessitates guidance systems rather than sanctions. The second thesis explores the limits and possibilities of institutional regulation of behavior in the context of marginalization and marginality. Institutional regulation of behavior in traffic is constrained by the fact that marginal positions in social groups are not only ubiquitous and relative but also rare. From this thesis, it follows that only minorities can be marginalized, and attempts to marginalize majorities will result in sanctions that fail to have the intended effect.

The author earned their doctorate in law from the University of Frankfurt in 1978. This work served as the basis for their 1975 doctoral thesis in social psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, titled „Games for Criminal Status – Justice as Order through Structured Social Inequality.“

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Grewe, Günther – Straßenverkehrsdelinquenz und Marginalität: Untersuchungen zur institutionellen Regelung von Verhalten – Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1978 – (Frankfurter kriminalwissenschaftliche Studien, Bd. 4) – ISBN 3-261-02625-1
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Grewe, Günther – Games for Criminal Status: Justice as Order through Structured Social Inequality – Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979 – (European University Papers: Series 2, Law; Bd. 210) ISBN 3-8204-6480-8
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