Aineiston nimi

Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2020

Aineistonumero

FSD3717

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3717

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Kaakinen, Markus (University of Helsinki. Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy)
• Raeste, Anna (University of Helsinki. Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey studied the extent, frequency, and nature of self-reported offending among young people in Finland as well as their attitudes towards crime and experiences of being victims. The 2020 version of the survey included new questions concerning hate crimes, online hate speech, cyberbullying and sexual harassment committed by the respondents' friends. The 2020 survey also contained more detailed questions than in previous years about cybercrime and online hate speech on social media. Additionally, the 2020 survey introduced questions where the respondents were asked to rate to rate how well various statements about being friendly, restless, obedient, having trouble sleeping, etc. applied to them.

First, the respondents were asked about their school performance, future plans and family. Questions covered truancy, making graffiti, damaging the school's or other property, theft and shoplifting, motor vehicle theft, breaking and entering, copyright infringement online, bullying and cyberbullying, taking part in a fight, assault, robbery, possession of a weapon, alcohol use, drink-driving, and drug use. If the respondents admitted to having done any of the acts mentioned, they were asked whether they had done it in the previous 12 months and how many times. Relating to some of the offences, the respondents were also presented with specifying questions about the last time they had committed the act, for example, whether they had acted alone, whether they had been drunk at the time, whether the act had been revenge for some previous incident, what they had stolen, whether their motive for the offence had been discriminatory, and whether the police had been informed of the act.

The respondents were also asked whether they had been a victim of criminal damage, robbery, theft, bullying, threats of violence, assault, hate crime, parental corporal punishment, cyberbullying and sexual harassment by adults or other young people. If the respondents had been a victim of any of the acts, they were asked whether they had experienced it in the previous 12 months and how many times. Relating to some of the experiences, the respondents were also presented with specifying questions about the last time they had been a victim of the crime, for instance, whether the perpetrator had been male or female, how old the perpetrator had been, what his/her ethnic background had been, whether the respondent had sustained injuries, and what had been stolen. Relating to experiences of violence, the respondents were further presented with a list of people (e.g. sibling, friend, mother, father, unknown adult, teacher, coach/instructor) and asked whether any of them had physically assaulted them (hit, kicked, or used a weapon).

Family and circumstances at home were surveyed with questions about the extent to which parents supported and were interested in the respondent's life. Relating to leisure time, questions probed how often the respondents were away from home in the evenings, went to parties with alcohol involved, spent long periods of time online, played violent games, watched violent films etc. Questions about the neighbourhood of residence and school investigated the prevalence of graffiti and vandalism in the neighbourhood, and the prevalence of vandalism and disruptive behaviour at school. The respondents were also asked whether their friends had used cannabis, shared hate speech on social media, sexually harassed someone, shoplifted or been in a fight in a public place.

On the topic of social media, the respondents were asked how often they used various internet services (e.g. YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat). The respondents' social media use was investigated with a series of statements (e.g. I belong to social media communities that are an important part of me, I trust information that is shared with me on social media, I pretend to be a different person online than I really am). Experiences with online hate speech in the past 12 months were charted by asking the respondents whether they had sent, shared, or seen content that included hate speech towards a group of people based on, for example, their religious beliefs or sexual orientation.

The respondents' personality traits were charted by asking them the extent they agreed with statements relating to impulsiveness, risk-seeking, and being considerate of others. The respondents' agreement with a variety of attitudinal statements about law-breaking, multiculturalism, religion, and revenge was surveyed. The respondents were also asked how happy and satisfied with life they had been in the previous six months.

Background variables included, among others, the respondent's gender and age as well as the number of years they had lived in their municipality of residence, number of siblings, languages spoken at home, parents' economic activity, and family's financial situation.

Asiasanat

assault; bullying; burglary; crime and security; crime victims; criminal damage; criminal damage; cyberbullying; drinking behaviour; drug offences; juvenile delinquency; offences; parent-child relationship; personality traits; robbery; sexual harassment; theft; youth

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Crime and law enforcement (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Youth (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Kerääjät

• University of Helsinki. Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy

Ajallinen kattavuus

2020

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2020-01-01 – 2020-05-30

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

Pupils in the ninth grade of basic education in Finland

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Cluster: Stratified random

The sampling method took into consideration the size of the schools and their regional location according to Statistics Finland's urban-rural classification.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Vastausprosentti

78

Datatiedostojen kieli

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Datan versio

1.0

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

The researcher anonymised the data by removing information on the respondents' schools, classes from the data, as well as removing all open-ended questions of the type 'Other, please specify”. Additionally, the researcher anonymised the data by categorising the variables concerning the respondents' and their parents' countries of birth (b4_1, d6_2, d8_2). To prevent identification of respondents, in the variables concerning the number of siblings (d2_2b, d2_3b, d2_4b, d2_5b) values of three or more were top-coded at FSD.

The archived dataset does not include the variables m10_8a and m11_8 (who perpetrated the sexual violence) and the variable m11_9m (whether anything else was associated with the sexual violence).

Painokertoimet

Analysis weight: the weighting adjusts for sampling and non-response bias.

Viittausvaatimus

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.

Malliviittaus

Kaakinen, Markus (University of Helsinki) & Raeste, Anna (University of Helsinki): Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2020 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2023-03-17). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3717

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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

Varaumat

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

Julkaisut aineistosta

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

Kaakinen, M., Koivula, A., Savolainen, I., Sirola, A., Mikkola, M., Zych, I., Paek, H.-J., & Oksanen, A. (2021). Online dating applications and risk of youth victimization: A lifestyle exposure perspective. Aggressive Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21968

Kaakinen, M., Kivivuori, J., Enzmann, D., Raeste, A. & Näsi, M. (2022) School and home-based responding in an online youth crime survey: A natural experiment related to school lockdown in spring 2020. Nordic Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1080/2578983X.2022.2097901

Kaakinen, M. & Näsi, M. (2021). Nuorten rikoskäyttäytyminen ja uhrikokemukset 2020. Kriminologian ja oikeuspolitiikan instituutti. Katsauksia 47/2021. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/326622