University Lecturer
Research area: Legislative studies, sociology of law
Research interests: I am a university lecturer in the sociology of law, and I am currently researching legislative consultation practices as part of the SILE research consortium. In general, I am interested in the power dynamics in legislative processes and the penal system, as well as the role of non-governmental actors in the (criminal) justice system.
Tuhat Research Portal | E-mail: anna-maija.helminen@helsinki.fi
Markus Kaakinen
Associate Professor
Research area: Criminal Policy
Research interests: My research focuses on crime, victimisation, and criminal policy responses. Recent themes include youth and gang crime, hate crime, the effectiveness of prevention, and the role of technology and social media in youth offending and risk behavior. My work is characterised by a mixed-methods approach, where I have utilised a range of quantitative, computational, and qualitative methods.
Professor
Research area: Criminology
Research interests: My main research field is historical criminology, covering both history of criminology, and history of crime. In addition, I have research interests in the fields of homicide and delinquency studies, with particular focus on international research networks such as the International Self-Report Delinquency Study and the European Homicide Monitor.
Associate Professor (social and legal implications of AI)
Research area: Legal policy, Access to justice
Research interests: I am a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of law, technology, and society. My current research interests include European and national technology regulation, digital public administration, automation of legal practices, as well as theoretical and empirical approaches to socio-technical changes of law at various levels.
University Researcher
Research area: Criminal Policy, Border Criminology
Research interests: I am a social scientist conducting critical multidisciplinary research on crimmigration, control policies, and criminal justice. My research interests include policing, immigration enforcement, and the prison system, as well as broader socio-legal and theoretical analyses of state powers and the governance of marginalized populations.
Professor
Research area: Criminology
Research interests: I study criminality and other antisocial behavior using data from population registries and longitudinal cohort studies. I am especially interested in the interplay between individual, familial, and social risk factors for criminality and use a variety of advanced research designs to better understand causes and consequences of criminal behavior.
University researcher
Research area: Debt and debt problems
Research interests: My academic background is in demography and social policy. My research focuses on changes in the regulation related to consumer credit and their societal impacts, particularly on the position of indebted consumers. I am especially interested in the expansion of issues related to payday loans and their consequences on people's daily lives. I primarily use quantitative methods to analyze debt problems with diverse data sources.
Tuhat Research Portal | E-mail: karoliina.majamaa@helsinki.fi
Director, Professor of Criminal Law
Research area: Criminal Policy, Criminal Law
Research interests: My research focuses on the principles of criminalisation, with a particular emphasis on hate crime, terrorist offences, and organised crime. I also investigate international core crimes and strive to develop sustainable criminal law practices. My work is deeply rooted in the context of a security and risk society.
University lecturer
Research area: Criminology
Research interests: I am currently co-coordinator of the Finnish Crime Victim Survey. Besides victimology, my other research interests include youth delinquency and cybercrime. In particular I've been interested in long term trajectories in youth offending. My future focus is also developing the Finnish Crime Victim Survey, which will include combining survey and register data.
University Researcher
Research area: Sociolegal research, Access to Justice
Research interests: I am a sociologist with interest in sociolegal research and particularly empirical Access to Justice studies, using different methods. I am the main developer of a Finnish population survey about everyday legal problems. My current interests involve empirically investigating Access to Justice questions in the everyday lives of people and of specific groups of people, currently older people and people with dementia, as well as Access to Justice in specific (legal and non-legal) settings.
Research Director
Research area: Legislative studies, research on debt
Research interests: I am a sociologist of law, also engaged in political science, with a special interest in lawmaking—its knowledge base, epistemic struggles, and the realization of democracy in its various forms. My other special interests include the functioning of laws and research on debts in relation to insolvency proceedings.
University lecturer
Research area: Access to justice
Research interests: My background is in law and my research is focused on how regulation is applied in practice and how its goals are achieved. I am especially interested in children’s rights and study the topic in different environments (family, health care, social welfare, courts, and authorities etc.) with multidisciplinary and mixed-method research approach.
Tuhat Research Portal | E-mail: virve-maria.toivonen@helsinki.fi
University Researcher
Research area: Criminology
Research interests: I am currently the principal researcher of the Finnish Homicide Monitor and contact person for the European Homicide Monitor network. I study social and situational characteristics of severe violence and homicides. My research interests also include offenders' mental state evaluations and violence risk assessments and their consequences for offender rehabilitation and criminal policy, mental health work in prisons, and social and health services provided for offenders.