Jukka Savolainen

Jukka Savolainen

Office: 909 Social Sciences

Email: jukka @ umn.edu

Telephone: (612) 624-9046

Jukka Savolainen is a Visiting Associate Professor affiliated with the Department of Sociology. He is on a leave of absence from the National Research Institute of Legal Policy, the research arm of the Finnish Ministry of Justice. Prior to Minnesota, Dr. Savolainen has taught in Western Washington University and the University of Helsinki. He earned his Ph.D. in State University of New York, Albany.

Prof. Savolainen teaches classes in criminology, theory and methodology. Most of his research is focused on crime, violence, and criminal policy; often informed by a comparative cross-national perspective. In addition, Prof. Savolainen has published articles on sociological theory development, methodology, family studies, and art. He serves on the editorial board of the new peer-review journal Research on Finnish Society.

 

Recent publications
Historical Origins of a Cross-National Puzzle: Homicide in Finland, 1750-2000. Forthcoming in Homicide Studies.

Public Disorder and Business Victimization: Findings from a Survey of Female Entrepreneurs. Crime Prevention and Community Safety 9:1-20, 2007.

Style Matters: Gender Gap in the Price of Paintings. Austrian Journal for Historical Studies 2-3: 83-97, 2006. 

Inequality, Welfare State, and Homicide: Further Support for the Institutional Anomie Theory. Crime and Social Institutions, Richard Rosenfeld (ed.), International Library of Criminology, 2006.

Think Nationally, Act Locally: The Municipal-Level Effects of the National Crime Prevention Program in Finland. European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research 11(2): 175–191, 2005.