NCJ Number
183103
Date Published
1999
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This paper reviews crime and criminal justice in Finland.
Abstract
Societal changes in Finland during recent decades are reflected in statistics on recorded crime. Recorded crime in general increased during the 1960's and 1970's as affluence continued to increase, the large post-war age cohorts reached a crime-intensive age and the urban South experienced a wave of migration from the rural North. The surge in recorded crime was followed by a period of more stable trends, but during the 1980's there were new increases in some categories of recorded crime. Together with the economic recession in the early 1990's, many major crime categories began to decrease up until 1994; new increases have been recorded as the economy recovered. The paper discusses statistics for the years 1988-1997 concerning homicides, assaults, robberies, sex offenses, thefts, auto thefts, embezzlement, fraud, property damage, drunken driving, other traffic offenses, tax offenses and economic offenses, narcotics offenses, juvenile crime, foreigners and crime, and fear of crime. Table, notes