Homicide in Finland
Trends and Patterns in Historical and Comparative Perspective 

Helsinki

PREFACE

Finland has an exceptionally high homicide rate compared to other Scandinavian (and Western European) countries. Finland's peculiar position has remained unchanged throughout the 20th century. In May 2000, the National Research Institute of Legal Policy organized a small international seminar on this subject. The present publication includes most of the papers from this seminar. More extensive Finnish versions of some of the papers can be found in the Research Reports series of the institute.

Helsinki, on 28 April 2001
Tapio Lappi-Seppälä
Director
National Research Institute of Legal Policy

CONTENTS:

1.
Tapio Lappi-Seppälä:

Contents Front Page, Preface, Contents, Introduction (70kB) 

2.
Gary LaFree & Kriss A. Drass:

Homicide Trends in Finland and 33 Other Nations since 1955 (182kB) 
Is Finland Still Exceptional?

3.
Janne Kivivuori:

Patterns of Criminal Homicide in Finland 1960–1997 (444kB)

4.
Jukka Savolainen & Steven F. Messner & Janne Kivivuori:

Crime is Part of the Problem (180kB) 
Contexts of Lethal Violence in Finland and the United States

5.
JussiPajuoja:

Regional Variation and Psychosocial Background Factors of Finnish Homicide in 1980–1999 (87kB)

6.
Reino Sirén:

Recorded Assault Offences 1950–1997, (47kB)

Changing Structure and Influencing Factors of Assault Crime from the 1950s to the 1990s

7.
Martti Lehti:

The Homicide Wave in Finland from 1905 to 1932 (200kB)LITTERATURE

Backpage (9kB)