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Nsfk's 60. Research Seminar NSfK’s 60. Research Seminar 14. - 16. May 2018, Hotel Rantapuisto, Helsinki 0 Report including most of the papers that were presented during the NSfK Research Seminar 2018 (Hotel Rantapuisto, Helsinki, Finland 14.-16.5.2018) Nordiska Samarbetsrådet för Kriminologi 2018 c/o Ministry of Justice, Department of Criminal Policy POB 25 FI-00023 Government Finland www.nsfk.org NSfK Chairman: Aarne Kinnunen Leader of the Secretariat: Laura Mynttinen Photo of the front page: www.rantapuisto.fi November 2018 ISBN: 978-82-7688-047-2 1 Table of Contents Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 Program for the seminar ................................................................................................................................. 7 PRESENTATIONS IN PLENARY Kjersti Lohne: Penal power beyond the nation state: the politics of international criminal justice ... 12 Alice Mills: Penal Populism, Crime and Criminal Justice in New Zealand .......................................... 15 Magnus Hörnqvist: Beyond the Neoliberal Carceral state: Emerging Nordic trends ........................ 21 Eva Magdalena Stambøl: Criminalization and Crime Control at Europe´s Southernmost Geopolitical Border: EU Justice and Home Affairs in Niger, Mali and Senegal................................... 25 PRESENTATIONS IN PARALLEL SESSIONS Jonna Rennerskog: What happens when the coercive power of the state is exposed to competition? Exploring the development of state driven coercive care of children operating on a quasi-market. .......................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Annick Prieur: Youth in confinement: Ambiguous practices of protection, treatment and punishment in Danish secure institutions ................................................................................................. 34 Yaira Obstbaum Federley: The relevance of declined alcohol use for the decline in young people’s delinquent behavior? .................................................................................................................................... 37 Jenita Rauta: The Finnish hate crime monitoring system ........................................................................ 43 Malin Fredriksson: Negotiations of racist hate crimes in the criminal justice system in Finland ...... 47 Jasmine Kelekay: Beyond Ethnicity: The Case for Critical Race Theory in Nordic Criminology ...... 54 Jónas Orri Jónasson, Sædís Jana Jónsdóttir, and Rannveig Þórisdóttir: Feelings of Unsafety and Vulnerability in Reykjavik City Centre: What Affects Fear of Crime? .................................................. 57 Maiju Tanskanen: Do intimate partner violence victimization and other violent victimization have similar etiologies? .......................................................................................................................................... 65 Rannveig Þórisdóttir: Family violence in the Metropolitan area: Development from 2006/2007 to 2016/2017 ......................................................................................................................................................... 72 Filip Roumeliotis: Ideological Closure: Drug Prevention in a Post-political Society........................... 75 Teresa Silva: A Crime Prevention Approach to an Open-air Drug Market: Preliminary results of the “Navet” project ....................................................................................................................................... 78 2 Aarne Kinnunen : The old school: Hard drug users in 1960´s and-70´s Helsinki…………………..89 Robin Gålnander: ”Nej men då skiter jag i det här” Om strukturella barriärer, fatalism och handlingsutrymme i tidiga stadier av upphörande med brott. .............................................................. 93 Nicolay B. Johansen: Funneling disobediant individuals: On the declining importance of penal law in order production ...................................................................................................................................... 99 Maija Helminen and Alice Mills: Exploring the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Nordic and Neoliberal Anglo-Saxon Welfare Societies: A Comparison of Finnish KRITS and New Zealand NZPARS ........................................................................................................................................................ 104 David Amon Neequaye: Facilitating Information Disclosure in Intelligence Interviews: The Case of Subtle Influence ........................................................................................................................................... 112 Farhan Sarwar: Understanding The Accuracy Of Eyewitness Memory Reports .............................. 117 Adam Diderichsen: Policing False Positives: Lessons from Epidemiology ........................................ 122 Mareile Kaufmann: Algorithmic analysis and the role of patterns for predictive policing .............. 128 Anita Heber: Viktimologi & teori ̶ Dåtid, nutid, framtid .................................................................... 133 Kati Kataja: Violence as a part of drug scenes - Finnish context .......................................................... 137 Susanna Lundell: Transformation from interpersonal mistreatment into corporate violence ........ 143 Heidi Mork Lomell: Digitalt Borgervern ................................................................................................. 149 Emma Holkeri: Producing definition, producing control: (Self)reflection of the academic constructions of “school shooting threats” .............................................................................................. 155 Tara Søderholm: Spenning og etikk: Krimjournalistiske identiteter og nyhetsnarrativer ................ 161 Helena Huhta: The shift in the meaning of ethnicity in one Finnish prison ward ............................ 167 Tea Fredriksson: (an)Othering perspective - An intersectional approach to narratological prison studies .......................................................................................................................................................... 170 Aura Kostiainen: Situating societal change in police education in Finland after WWII ................... 179 Lars Nørr Mikkelsen & Malte Conrad: The role in society and changing assignments of the Danish police in the three phases of Modernity .................................................................................................. 184 Timo Korander: Power, Politics and Control on the Streets .................................................................. 196 Natalia Bien & Anita Rönneling: Vold og trusler mod ansatte i Kriminalforsorgen ........................ 206 Hans Jørgen Engbo: Totalinstitutioner eller totalitære institutioner – findes de i de nordiske lande i dag? ............................................................................................................................................................... 212 Noora Lähteenmäki: Offender’s and probation staff’s experiences of electronically monitored sanction ........................................................................................................................................................ 221 Peter Kruize: Burde identitetstyveri/misbrug kriminaliseres i Danmark? .......................................... 226 3 Helgi Gunnlaugsson: From banning beer to cannabis: The power to define what is legal or not .. 236 Ragnhild Sollund: The Norwegian wolf policy, a cause of concern .................................................... 243 Hanna Maria Malik: Working experiences of Polish workers in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Methodological premises of the research project “The Formation of Labor Exploitation” ............. 248 4 Foreword The Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) convened its 60th research seminar in the beautiful surroundings of Hotel Rantapuisto in Helsinki, from the 14th through the 16th of May 2018. The main theme of the seminar was “Power, Politics and Crime Control. Understanding the links between power, politics, criminalization and crime”. The understanding behind the title lies in the phenomena, that power and politics are connected to how we define criminal behavior and how criminality should be controlled. The key question is how current Nordic criminology can contribute to this discussion. The seminar began with excellent plenary presentations. From the outset, Director of Research Jussi Pajuoja (FIN) addressed the audience. Pajuoja gave a good amount of examples of the crimes of the powerful in present day Finland. Pajuoja concluded that there seem to be a strong tendency of the authorities to trust each other in the Nordic countries and therefore criminal or corrupt cases stay easily hidden because of the unwillingness to report of the wrongdoings of the colleagues. After Pajuoja journalists from leading newspaper in Finland Helsingin Sanomat, Susanna Reinboth and Minna Passi (FIN) talked about investigative journalism and the crimes of the powerful. Reinboth and Passi presented their book Emperor Aarnio, a compelling narrative about the heady rise and eventual fall of former Helsinki drug squad chief Jari Aarnio. The book is based on extensive reporting
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