Students familiarize themselves with a certain field of criminology and its theoretical grounds and contemporary research. The themes change annually according to the available courses. For independent study, the student must choose one of the following special fields of study.
For independent study, choose one of the following:
Intimate partner violence
Juvenile Delinquency and Life-Course Criminology or
Einiö, E., Metsä-Simola, N., Aaltonen, M., Hiltunen, E., Martikainen, P. (2022). Partner violence surrounding divorce: a record-linkage study of wives and their husbands. Journal of Marriage and Family, https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12881(Opens in a new tab)
Suonpää, K. E-M., & Savolainen, J. (2019). When a Woman Kills Her Man: Gender and Victim Precipitation in Homicide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34(11), 2398-2413. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519834987(Opens in a new tab) (opens in a new window)
Nikupeteri, Anna. (2016). Stalked lives: Finnish women's emotional experiences of post-separation stalking. Nordic Social Work Research. 7. 10.1080/2156857X.2016.1192055.
Juvenile Delinquency and Life-Course Criminology
All of the following:
Burfeind, J. & Bartusch, D.J. (2015). Juvenile Delinquency: An integrated approach. Routledge.
Farrington, D.P., Kazemian, L., Piquero, A.R. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Oxford University Press. Chapters 1-3.
Wikström, Per-Olof H., Oberwittler, Dietrich, Treiber, Kyle & Hardie, Beth (2012). Breaking rules: The social and situational dynamics of young people's urban crime . Oxford University Press.
Hate crime, hate speech and radicalisation
All of the following:
Keipi, T., Näsi, M., Oksanen, A., & Räsänen, P. (2017). Online hate and harmful content: Cross national perspectives. Routledge.
Koomen, W., Van Der Pligt, J. (2016). The Psychology of Radicalization and Terrorism. Routledge.
Williams, M. (2021). The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it. Faber & Faber.
