Study title

Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2001

Alternative Title

The Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2001

Dataset ID Number

FSD1213

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1213

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Kivivuori, Janne (National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula))

Abstract

The survey studied the extent, frequency and nature of self-reported offending among 15-16 years old Finns, their attitudes towards crime and experiences of being victims. Questions covered truancy, running away from home, driving without a licence, doing graffiti, vandalising school property or other property, shoplifting, stealing from school or home, car theft and buying stolen goods. The respondents were also asked whether they had experienced phases during which they did more shoplifting than usual.

Some questions charted whether respondents had participated in drink-driving, bullying, fights, assaults or had used marijuana, hashish or other illegal drugs. One topic pertained to respondents' disruptive behaviour towards teachers (offensive language, offensive telephone calls, threatening with violence, using violence).

The survey carried a set of attitudinal questions about breaking the law, interpersonal relations and human nature. The respondents were also asked how many of their friends had done shoplifting or used drugs and whether respondents thought it probable that they themselves would do so in the future and what the consequences might be. Last questions charted whether the respondents themselves had been victims of bullying, thefts, assaults or threats. In addition, the respondents were asked whether they had experienced sexual harassment, what the characteristics of the offender had been, whether they had told anyone about it and what effect the harassment had had on them.

Background variables included, among others, respondents' sex, age, employment status, use of money, leisure activities, dating, alcohol use, smoking, punishments received from parents, parents' occupation and employment status. There were also two variables connected to the type of municipality.

Keywords

adolescents; alcohol use; assault; bullying; crime victims; criminal damage; disorderly conduct; drug abuse; juvenile delinquency; offences; schoolchildren; teacher-student relationship; theft; traffic offences; youth

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Youth (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Crime and law enforcement (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Data Collector

• National Research Institute of Legal Policy

Data Producers

• National Research Institute of Legal Policy

Time Period Covered

2001

Collection Dates

2001-04 – 2001-05

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

9th grade pupils (aged 15-16) in Finnish-speaking municipal comprehensive schools. Only the sample of Helsinki included private schools.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability

At first each Finnish province (according to the old province division) was stratified into three subgroups/strata: urban municipalities, densely populated municipalities and rural municipalities. From each strata one school was randomly selected, using a list of all municipal Finnish-speaking schools with 9th grade in the autumn 2000. In addition, one school was sampled from the biggest city of each province. The metropolitan area was divided into four strata: Espoo (1 school), Vantaa (1 school), municipal schools in Helsinki (2 schools) and private schools in Helsinki (2 schools). The Helsinki private school stratum is thus an exception in a sample of municipal schools. The survey series uses a rotating sample. One third of the schools participating in the year 2001 had been selected in 1996, one third in 1998 and one third in 2001.

Data were collected by contact teachers in sampled schools, instructed by National Research Institute of Legal Policy.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

88.70

Data File Language

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The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

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Data Version

2.0

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FSD1214 Teacher Victimisation in Finland 1997

FSD2672 Teacher Victimisation in Finland 2008

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The data contain variable koulu (school) created at FSD, which is based on the original school id. This variable allows identifying the observations belonging to the same cluster.

Answers to the open-ended questions are not included. For reasons of privacy, exceptional or erroneous values of variables were classified as missing information when necessary.

Weighting

The data set contains one weight variable wt1, formed by dividing the target population of a stratum by the number of respondents in that stratum. The target population consisted of 9th grade pupils and was obtained from the pupil register of Statistics Finland.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Kivivuori, Janne (National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula)): Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2001 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-05-02). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1213

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Special Terms and Conditions for Access

Users of the data shall send the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy a copy of all reports, articles, other publications or unpublished theses based on or using the data. The copies shall be sent to the mail address: Department of Social Research, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, Janne Kivivuori, P.O. Box 10, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Publications

Nuoret rikosten tekijöinä ja uhreina (2002). Toim. Janne Kivivuori. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos Oikeuspoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen julkaisuja; 188.

Ringvall, Sabina (2003). Ung och drogbrukare: förklaringar till ungdomars drogbruk i Finland. Pro gradu -avhandling: Åbo Akademi, ekonomisk-statsvetenskapliga fakulteten, sociologi.

Kivivuori, Janne & Salmi, Venla (2005). Nuorten rikoskäyttäytyminen 1995-2004: teemana sosiaalinen pääoma. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos. Oikeuspoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen julkaisuja; 214.

Nuorten rikoskäyttäytyminen ja uhrikokemukset: Nuorisorikollisuuskyselyiden tuloksia 1995-2008 (2009). Toim. Salmi, Venla. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos. Oikeuspoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen tutkimuksia; 246.

Salmi, Venla (2008). Nuorten rikoskäyttäytyminen 1995-2008 [verkkodokumentti]. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos. Oikeuspoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen verkkokatsauksia; 9/2008. http://www.optula.om.fi/1247667029769 [viitattu 9.7.2013].

Kivivuori, J. (2014). Understanding Trends in Personal Violence: Does Cultural Sensitivity Matter? In Michael Tonry (ed): Why Crime Rates Fall, and Why they Don't. Crime and Justice, Volume 43. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Kivivuori, J. & Salmi, V. & Walser, S. (2013). Supervision Mode Effects in Computerized Delinquency Surveys at School: Finnish Replication of a Swiss Experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology 9:1, 91-107.

Kivivuori, J. (2011). Discovery of Hidden Crime. Self-Report Surveys in Criminal Policy Context. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Kivivuori, J. & Salmi, V. (2009). The Challenge of Special Needs Education in School-Based Delinquency Research. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 10:1, 2-17.

Kivivuori, J. (2013). Methodological studies in the development of Finnish crime surveys: Selected examples. In: Methodologies and methods in criminology. NSfKs 55. forskerseminar. Scandinavian Research Council fro Criminology, Aarhus Universitet.

Kivivuori, Janne & Aaltonen, Mikko & Näsi, Matti & Suonpää, Karoliina & Danielsson, Petri (2018). Kriminologia: rikollisuus ja kontrolli muuttuvassa yhteiskunnassa. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Kaakinen, M. & Näsi, M. (2021). Nuorisorikollisuuden esiintyvyys ja tekomäärät Suomessa 1995-2020. Kriminologia, 1(1), 5-19. https://kriminologia.journal.fi/article/view/109017.