Study title

Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2004

Alternative Title

The Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2004

Dataset ID Number

FSD2102

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2102

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

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

Abstract

The survey charts self-reported juvenile delinquency, experiences of crime victimisation, and attitudes to crime. The respondents' were asked whether they had played truant, run away from home, driven a car or motorcycle without a driving licence, drawn graffiti on walls, damaged property, shop-lifted, stolen from school or home, bought stolen goods, stolen a car, bullied someone, been in a fight, beaten somebody up, taken drugs or misused legal medication, or driven drunk.

If the respondents admitted to having committed any of the above-mentioned offences, and if the offence was illegal, they were asked whether the police had found out about it. In addition, they were asked whether they had committed the offence during the past year, whether they had acted alone, whether they were drunk at the time and whether somebody had found out about it. The respondents were also presented with specifying questions, for example, what kind of things they had shop-lifted. The survey also studied whether teachers are bullied at school.

The respondents' attitudes to other people, to breaking the law, and to reasons for breaking the law were examined. Their self-perceptions and relationships to own parents, teachers and adults in the neighbourhood were queried on with attitudinal statements. The respondents were also asked whether they had been victims of violence or theft.

Background variables included respondent's gender, age, alcohol use, leisure time activities and company, dating, plans after lower secondary school, need to repeat a year in school, parents' occupation and economic activity, and household's financial circumstances. The data includes two different variables denoting municipality type.

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
• The Academy of Finland

Time Period Covered

2004

Collection Dates

2004-04-19 – 2004-04-30

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

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

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Stratified

Firstly, each Finnish province (according to the old province division) was stratified into four subgroups/strata: largest city, other urban municipalities, densely populated municipalities and rural municipalities. One Finnish-speaking school was sampled from the biggest city of each province and from each other stratum. The selection of Swedish-speaking schools was conducted in the same way, except only three provinces were included: Uusimaa, Turku and Pori, and Vaasa.

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

85.5

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

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

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Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

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

Open-ended variables q5_1 and q8_1 charting parents’ employment situation were removed from the data during archiving. For reasons of privacy, exceptional or erroneous values of variables were classified as missing information when necessary. Identifying information was categorised or removed from the open-ended responses left in the data. Changes done in the FSD have been marked with [double square brackets].

Weighting

The data include a weight variable w04. It has been formed by dividing the target population of a stratum with the number of respondents in that stratum.

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 2004 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-05-03). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2102

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

Salmi, Venla & Kivivuori, Janne (2006). The Association between Social Capital and Juvenile Crime. European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 123-148.

Leppäkumpu, Markus (2008). Nuorisorikollisuus ja aikapreferenssit. Joensuu: Joensuun yliopisto. Kansantaloustieteen pro gradu -tutkielma.

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

Ellonen, Noora (2008). Kasvuyhteisö nuorten turvana. Sosiaalisen pääoman yhteys nuorten masentuneisuuteen ja rikekäyttäytymiseen. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

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.