J Savolainen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 23279 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Savolainen |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Savolainen |
| ASSINATURA | SAVOLAINEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2714-1597 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 284 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The growth of knowledge in criminology
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
Meritorious disparities
American universities have long treated racial underrepresentation in academic programs as a problem to be solved at the point of admission. Race-conscious selection, whether explicit or concealed, rests on the assumption that disparities in outcomes reflect systemic exclusion and can be corrected by relaxing formal thresholds based on merit. With medicine as the focus, this essay challenges that assumption by shifting attention to earlier in the…
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew
Sociology in crisis
Unequal treatment under the flaw
The Coddling of the American Woke
Jukka Savolainen peruses Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time and comes away convinced that Mounk spends too much time “flattering the moral sensibilities of adherents to woke ideology.” It is this “cognitive coddling” of the elite young, Savolainen explains, that gave rise to their progressive extremism in the first place
Country Music Violates the "Sacred Project" of Elites
Sociologist Jukka Savolainen contrasts the media’s vicious treatment of country singers Jason Aldean and Oliver Anthony to the far more benign, or even laudatory, treatment of lawbreaking hip-hop artists and concludes: Country artists with populist messages violate core assumptions of the left-liberal worldview, whereas the ultra-violent lyrics and behavior of hip-hop artists merely reinforce them.”
Positionality and Its Problems
There has been a remarkable push for the use of positionality statements—also known as reflexivity statements—in scientific-journal articles and other research literatures. Grounded in reputable philosophical traditions, positionality statements are meant to address genuine concerns about the limits of knowledge production. However, there are at least three reasons why they should be avoided in scholarship. First, it is impossible to construct cr…
Exploring sources of heterogeneity in immigrant crime
Evidence from prior research indicates that, in many European countries, immigrants tend to be overrepresented in official crime statistics. Most of these studies treat immigrants as a single category, ignoring considerable differences in the characteristics of this population aggregate. To better understand the nature of immigrant crime, our research explores variation in registered criminal offending across two characteristics that have been re…
Is Crime Bad for Your Health? The Link Between Delinquent Offending and Cardiometabolic Risk
Specific sources of psychophysiological dysfunction have been identified as a primary mechanism of the association between stress and health, wherein chronic and prolonged exposure to stressors results in downstream negative consequences of stress-linked dysregulation that increase the likelihood of chronic health problems. Factors pertinent to criminological inquiry have been previously identified as sources of physiological dysfunction, but the…
Parental Alcohol Use and the Alcohol Misuse of their Offspring in a Finnish Birth Cohort
Beauty is in the eye of the offender
The Influence of Alcohol Intoxication on Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Contraception Use
We use the method of situational decomposition in an attempt to identify the causal effect of alcohol intoxication on adolescent sexual intercourse and contraception use. This approach assumes that the relationship between frequency of alcohol intoxication and behavior while sober is entirely spurious. With this in mind, the total association between drinking and behavior can be decomposed into spurious and 'non-spurious' (i.e., causal) component…
Reactions of Boys and Girls to Sexual Abuse and to Sexual Encounters with Peers
Antidepressant use and violent crimes among young people
BACKGROUND: The use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), has been questioned due to poor efficacy and safety. We examined whether young violent offenders were more likely antidepressant users prior to their first violent offence than other young persons. METHODS: The study is a follow-up of children born in Finland in 1987 (n=59 120), linking national registers to each other using personal identity codes…
Longitudinal Pathways from Cumulative Contextual Risk at Birth to School Functioning in Adolescence
Antisocial and human capital pathways to socioeconomic exclusion
Nordic welfare states have been very successful at reducing poverty and inequality among their citizens. However, the presence of a strong social safety net in these countries has not solved the problem of socioeconomic exclusion, manifesting in such outcomes as chronic unemployment and welfare dependency. In an effort to understand this phenomenon, the current study builds on the assumption that psychological risk factors emerge as important det…
Does the Gender Gap in Delinquency Vary by Level of Patriarchy? A Cross‐national Comparative Analysis
We examined cross‐national variation in the gender differential in offending, which is often referred to as the gender gap in crime. Analyses were directed toward two empirical questions: 1) Is the gender gap narrower in less patriarchal sociocultural settings, and if so, 2) is this outcome a result of higher levels of offending on the part of girls, lower levels of offending on the part of boys, or some combination thereof? To address these ques…
The revenge motive in delinquency
Revenge is a well-recognised motive for crime and violence. In sociological research, this topic has been pursued primarily in ethnographic studies of street offenders or gang conflicts. Psychologists have studied revenge behaviour experimentally in laboratory settings and revenge ideation with community samples. Despite these contributions, we know very little about the prevalence and correlates of revenge-motivated offending in representative m…
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 studies reviewed here find a negative longitudinal association between marriage and crime. The results are more consistent among men. Studies that attend to relationship quality, such as the level of marital attachment, tend to produce particularly strong associations…
Social Mobility and Crime
This research examined intergenerational educational mobility as an antecedent of criminal offending. Anomie theory and the general theory of crime assume an inverse association between intergenerational mobility and criminal behaviour. In addition, Moffitt’s taxonomic theory and general strain theory expect intergenerational continuity in low educational attainment to be especially criminogenic. We examined the hypothesized associations with tot…
Pubertal Development and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescent Girls
There are strong reasons to assume that early onset of puberty accelerates coital debut among adolescent girls. Although many studies support this assumption, evidence regarding the putative causal processes is limited and inconclusive. In this research, longitudinal data from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study ( N = 2,596) were used to address three theoretical explanations: (a) a direct effect premised on biological processes, (b) a m…
Changes in Criminal Offending Around the Time of Job Entry
Does employment promote desistance from crime? Most perspectives assume that individuals who become employed are less likely to offend than those who do not. The critical issue has to do with the timing of employment transitions in the criminal trajectory. The turning point hypothesis expects reductions in offending after job entries, whereas the maturation perspective assumes desistance to have occurred ahead of successful transitions to legitim…
Cross-National Variation in Socioeconomic Status and Delinquency
This research examined cross-national differences in the association between social class and delinquency. The poverty hypothesis expects socioeconomic disadvantage to exert a causal influence on delinquent behavior. This expectation implies that the individual-level association between family SES and delinquent offending will be attenuated at increased levels of collective social protection. The social selection perspective also assumes a negati…
Inequality, Welfare State, and Homicide
Building directly on key insights from two prior tests of the institutional anomie theory, we predict that the positive effect of economic inequality on the level of lethal violence is limited to nations characterized by relatively weak collective institutions of social protection. This hypothesis is tested with two complementary cross‐national data sets. Both settings reveal a negative interaction effect between economic inequality and the stren…
Work, Family and Criminal Desistance
Journal Article Work, Family and Criminal Desistance: Adult Social Bonds in a Nordic Welfare State Get access Jukka Savolainen Jukka Savolainen * *School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, CPACS Room 218, 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68182-0149, USA; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 3, May 2009, …
Changes in Criminal Offending Around the Time of Job Entry
Does employment promote desistance from crime? Most perspectives assume that individuals who become employed are less likely to offend than those who do not. The critical issue has to do with the timing of employment transitions in the criminal trajectory. The turning point hypothesis expects reductions in offending after job entries, whereas the maturation perspective assumes desistance to have occurred ahead of successful transitions to legitim…
Is the Association Between Alcohol Use and Delinquency Causal or Spurious
We attempt to isolate the effects of alcohol on different types of delinquent behavior by identifying the spurious portion of the relationship. Using data on adolescents from Finland, we compare the relationship between drinking and delinquent behavior while sober to the total relationship between drinking and delinquent behavior (sober or not). For each type of offense, we find a substantial relationship between drinking and sober delinquency, w…
The Cultural Context of Adolescent Drinking and Violence in 30 European Countries
Cross‐national variation in the effect of alcohol on adolescent violence is examined with survey data from 30 European countries. The data are analyzed using a method that makes it possible to isolate the nonspurious portion of the alcohol–violence relationship in different countries. In addition, multilevel models are used to estimate the effects of region and contextual measures of adolescent drinking on the alcohol–violence relationship. The e…
Relative Cohort Size and Age‐specific Arrest Rates
The demographic theory formulated by Richard Easterlin (1980) predicts a positive relationship between the relative size of birth cohorts and their rates of criminal offending. Extensive testing of this hypothesis has produced scant support in the literature. Drawing on the emerging conditional interpretation of the Easterlin effect, we propose that the impact of fertility decline on the criminal behavior of the Baby Bust generation may have been…
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 studies reviewed here find a negative longitudinal association between marriage and crime. The results are more consistent among men. Studies that attend to relationship quality, such as the level of marital attachment, tend to produce particularly strong associations…
Does the Gender Gap in Delinquency Vary by Level of Patriarchy? A Cross‐national Comparative Analysis
We examined cross‐national variation in the gender differential in offending, which is often referred to as the gender gap in crime. Analyses were directed toward two empirical questions: 1) Is the gender gap narrower in less patriarchal sociocultural settings, and if so, 2) is this outcome a result of higher levels of offending on the part of girls, lower levels of offending on the part of boys, or some combination thereof? To address these ques…
The revenge motive in delinquency
Revenge is a well-recognised motive for crime and violence. In sociological research, this topic has been pursued primarily in ethnographic studies of street offenders or gang conflicts. Psychologists have studied revenge behaviour experimentally in laboratory settings and revenge ideation with community samples. Despite these contributions, we know very little about the prevalence and correlates of revenge-motivated offending in representative m…
Antisocial Propensity, Adolescent School Outcomes, and the Risk of Criminal Conviction
Data from the 1986 N orthern F inland B irth C ohort S tudy ( n = 4,645) were used to examine the influence of mid‐adolescent (age 15) school outcomes on late‐adolescent (ages 17–19) risk of criminal conviction. Consistent with social‐developmental theories of offending, we found that poor academic performance and reduced school attachment increase the risk of criminal conviction independently of pre‐existing differences in antisocial propensity …
Reactions of Boys and Girls to Sexual Abuse and to Sexual Encounters with Peers
Parenthood and Psychological Well-being in Finland
Research based on American data indicates that the presence of children in the family tends to have a negative effect on the mental well being of adults. According to McLanahan and Adams (1987 and 1989), this relationship is explained by the temporal and monetary constraints associated with contemporary parenting. In order to alleviate the problem, they advocate public policy solutions such as child allowance and state- subsidized childcare. To e…
Pubertal Development and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescent Girls
There are strong reasons to assume that early onset of puberty accelerates coital debut among adolescent girls. Although many studies support this assumption, evidence regarding the putative causal processes is limited and inconclusive. In this research, longitudinal data from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study ( N = 2,596) were used to address three theoretical explanations: (a) a direct effect premised on biological processes, (b) a m…
The Rationality of Drawing Big Conclusions Based on Small Samples
Longitudinal Pathways from Cumulative Contextual Risk at Birth to School Functioning in Adolescence
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew
Beauty is in the eye of the offender
Cross-National Variation in Socioeconomic Status and Delinquency
This research examined cross-national differences in the association between social class and delinquency. The poverty hypothesis expects socioeconomic disadvantage to exert a causal influence on delinquent behavior. This expectation implies that the individual-level association between family SES and delinquent offending will be attenuated at increased levels of collective social protection. The social selection perspective also assumes a negati…
Family, Community, and Lifestyle
The proximate correlates of adolescent victimization are well documented in the literature. The purpose of our research is to examine the more fundamental sources of this outcome. Focusing on two basic social contexts—the family and the residential community—we develop a theoretical model and test it empirically against a multilevel data set on juveniles living in Helsinki. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the family context is an imp…
Public Disorder and Business Victimization
Sociology in crisis
Antidepressant use and violent crimes among young people
BACKGROUND: The use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), has been questioned due to poor efficacy and safety. We examined whether young violent offenders were more likely antidepressant users prior to their first violent offence than other young persons. METHODS: The study is a follow-up of children born in Finland in 1987 (n=59 120), linking national registers to each other using personal identity codes…
Antisocial and human capital pathways to socioeconomic exclusion
Nordic welfare states have been very successful at reducing poverty and inequality among their citizens. However, the presence of a strong social safety net in these countries has not solved the problem of socioeconomic exclusion, manifesting in such outcomes as chronic unemployment and welfare dependency. In an effort to understand this phenomenon, the current study builds on the assumption that psychological risk factors emerge as important det…
Social Mobility and Crime
This research examined intergenerational educational mobility as an antecedent of criminal offending. Anomie theory and the general theory of crime assume an inverse association between intergenerational mobility and criminal behaviour. In addition, Moffitt’s taxonomic theory and general strain theory expect intergenerational continuity in low educational attainment to be especially criminogenic. We examined the hypothesized associations with tot…
The Rationality of Drawing Big Conclusions Based on Small Samples
A Conceptual Introduction to Modeling
Contents: Preface. First Steps, Basic Dilemmas, Gulfs, and Bridge Building. The Big Leap: Carving Situations Up Into Concepts. Sticks and Spaces: Relationships Between Concepts. Elaboration Within the Constraints of an Additive Model. Closing Circles and Uncovering Dynamics: Feedback in Social Life. Conditional and Moderating Relationships: Elaborating the Contexts of Action. Criteria for Evaluating Models. Strategies for Moving From Elaborated t…
Relative Cohort Size and Age‐specific Arrest Rates
The demographic theory formulated by Richard Easterlin (1980) predicts a positive relationship between the relative size of birth cohorts and their rates of criminal offending. Extensive testing of this hypothesis has produced scant support in the literature. Drawing on the emerging conditional interpretation of the Easterlin effect, we propose that the impact of fertility decline on the criminal behavior of the Baby Bust generation may have been…
Inequality, Welfare State, and Homicide
Building directly on key insights from two prior tests of the institutional anomie theory, we predict that the positive effect of economic inequality on the level of lethal violence is limited to nations characterized by relatively weak collective institutions of social protection. This hypothesis is tested with two complementary cross‐national data sets. Both settings reveal a negative interaction effect between economic inequality and the stren…
Parenthood and Psychological Well-being in Finland
Research based on American data indicates that the presence of children in the family tends to have a negative effect on the mental well being of adults. According to McLanahan and Adams (1987 and 1989), this relationship is explained by the temporal and monetary constraints associated with contemporary parenting. In order to alleviate the problem, they advocate public policy solutions such as child allowance and state- subsidized childcare. To e…
Locked Out
In Plot Against America, the novelist Philip Roth imagines what would have happened to the United States and, by extension, the Western civilization had the pro-Nazi aviator Charles Lindbergh's 1940 bid for the presidency proved successful. In Locked Out—a sociological study of felon disenfranchisement in the United States—the authors, Manza and Uggen, conclude that in the absence of voting restrictions against felons, Al Gore would have been ele…
Public Disorder and Business Victimization
Is the Association Between Alcohol Use and Delinquency Causal or Spurious
We attempt to isolate the effects of alcohol on different types of delinquent behavior by identifying the spurious portion of the relationship. Using data on adolescents from Finland, we compare the relationship between drinking and delinquent behavior while sober to the total relationship between drinking and delinquent behavior (sober or not). For each type of offense, we find a substantial relationship between drinking and sober delinquency, w…
Work, Family and Criminal Desistance
Journal Article Work, Family and Criminal Desistance: Adult Social Bonds in a Nordic Welfare State Get access Jukka Savolainen Jukka Savolainen * *School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, CPACS Room 218, 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68182-0149, USA; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 3, May 2009, …
Family, Community, and Lifestyle
The proximate correlates of adolescent victimization are well documented in the literature. The purpose of our research is to examine the more fundamental sources of this outcome. Focusing on two basic social contexts—the family and the residential community—we develop a theoretical model and test it empirically against a multilevel data set on juveniles living in Helsinki. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the family context is an imp…
Antisocial Propensity, Adolescent School Outcomes, and the Risk of Criminal Conviction
Data from the 1986 N orthern F inland B irth C ohort S tudy ( n = 4,645) were used to examine the influence of mid‐adolescent (age 15) school outcomes on late‐adolescent (ages 17–19) risk of criminal conviction. Consistent with social‐developmental theories of offending, we found that poor academic performance and reduced school attachment increase the risk of criminal conviction independently of pre‐existing differences in antisocial propensity …
The Cultural Context of Adolescent Drinking and Violence in 30 European Countries
Cross‐national variation in the effect of alcohol on adolescent violence is examined with survey data from 30 European countries. The data are analyzed using a method that makes it possible to isolate the nonspurious portion of the alcohol–violence relationship in different countries. In addition, multilevel models are used to estimate the effects of region and contextual measures of adolescent drinking on the alcohol–violence relationship. The e…
Cross-National Variation in Socioeconomic Status and Delinquency
This research examined cross-national differences in the association between social class and delinquency. The poverty hypothesis expects socioeconomic disadvantage to exert a causal influence on delinquent behavior. This expectation implies that the individual-level association between family SES and delinquent offending will be attenuated at increased levels of collective social protection. The social selection perspective also assumes a negati…
Changes in Criminal Offending Around the Time of Job Entry
Does employment promote desistance from crime? Most perspectives assume that individuals who become employed are less likely to offend than those who do not. The critical issue has to do with the timing of employment transitions in the criminal trajectory. The turning point hypothesis expects reductions in offending after job entries, whereas the maturation perspective assumes desistance to have occurred ahead of successful transitions to legitim…
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 studies reviewed here find a negative longitudinal association between marriage and crime. The results are more consistent among men. Studies that attend to relationship quality, such as the level of marital attachment, tend to produce particularly strong associations…
Social Mobility and Crime
This research examined intergenerational educational mobility as an antecedent of criminal offending. Anomie theory and the general theory of crime assume an inverse association between intergenerational mobility and criminal behaviour. In addition, Moffitt’s taxonomic theory and general strain theory expect intergenerational continuity in low educational attainment to be especially criminogenic. We examined the hypothesized associations with tot…
Pubertal Development and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescent Girls
There are strong reasons to assume that early onset of puberty accelerates coital debut among adolescent girls. Although many studies support this assumption, evidence regarding the putative causal processes is limited and inconclusive. In this research, longitudinal data from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study ( N = 2,596) were used to address three theoretical explanations: (a) a direct effect premised on biological processes, (b) a m…
The revenge motive in delinquency
Revenge is a well-recognised motive for crime and violence. In sociological research, this topic has been pursued primarily in ethnographic studies of street offenders or gang conflicts. Psychologists have studied revenge behaviour experimentally in laboratory settings and revenge ideation with community samples. Despite these contributions, we know very little about the prevalence and correlates of revenge-motivated offending in representative m…
Antidepressant use and violent crimes among young people
BACKGROUND: The use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), has been questioned due to poor efficacy and safety. We examined whether young violent offenders were more likely antidepressant users prior to their first violent offence than other young persons. METHODS: The study is a follow-up of children born in Finland in 1987 (n=59 120), linking national registers to each other using personal identity codes…
Longitudinal Pathways from Cumulative Contextual Risk at Birth to School Functioning in Adolescence
Antisocial and human capital pathways to socioeconomic exclusion
Nordic welfare states have been very successful at reducing poverty and inequality among their citizens. However, the presence of a strong social safety net in these countries has not solved the problem of socioeconomic exclusion, manifesting in such outcomes as chronic unemployment and welfare dependency. In an effort to understand this phenomenon, the current study builds on the assumption that psychological risk factors emerge as important det…
Does the Gender Gap in Delinquency Vary by Level of Patriarchy? A Cross‐national Comparative Analysis
We examined cross‐national variation in the gender differential in offending, which is often referred to as the gender gap in crime. Analyses were directed toward two empirical questions: 1) Is the gender gap narrower in less patriarchal sociocultural settings, and if so, 2) is this outcome a result of higher levels of offending on the part of girls, lower levels of offending on the part of boys, or some combination thereof? To address these ques…
Reactions of Boys and Girls to Sexual Abuse and to Sexual Encounters with Peers
Is Crime Bad for Your Health? The Link Between Delinquent Offending and Cardiometabolic Risk
Specific sources of psychophysiological dysfunction have been identified as a primary mechanism of the association between stress and health, wherein chronic and prolonged exposure to stressors results in downstream negative consequences of stress-linked dysregulation that increase the likelihood of chronic health problems. Factors pertinent to criminological inquiry have been previously identified as sources of physiological dysfunction, but the…
Parental Alcohol Use and the Alcohol Misuse of their Offspring in a Finnish Birth Cohort
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