Childhood victimization from life-course perspective
By utilizing longitudinal register-linkage data the project aims to study the social and family level determinants of child victimization, effects of child victimization, the “victimization careers” of children, and victim/offender overlap from a life-course perspective.
Contact person: Noora Ellonen
Sociodemographic determinants of criminal careers in Finland 1987–2015
Aim of the project is to provide new evidence on the causal mechanisms between social disadvantage and crime.
Contact person: Mikko Aaltonen (project is located at the University of Helsinki)
See more: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/projects/sociodemographic-determinants-of-criminal-careers-in-finland-1987
Cybercrime Victimization of Adolescents and Young Adults
The aim of the thesis is to bring forth new knowledge of opportunistic and personal factors behind cybercrime victimization of adolscents and young adults utilizing established theories of criminology from social psychological point of view. As Cybercrime knows no national boundaries the data used in studies is both national and multi-national providing a possibility to view the phenom of cyber victimaization from larger, cross-national perspective.
Contact person: Marko Mikkola