EMERGING PROBLEMS OF OFFICIAL SOCIAL CONTROL IN FINLAND (FROM SOCIAL CHANGE, CRIME AND POLICE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, JUNE 1-4, 1992, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, P 83-93, 1993, JOZSEF VIGH AND GEZA KATONA, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-144794)

• NCJ Number: 144801
• Author(s): K Aromaa
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 11 pages
• Sale Source: Eotvos Lorand University
• Publication Type: Research (Theoretical)
• Language: English
• Country: Hungary

Annotation

This paper examines criminogenic factors in the emerging economic integration of Europe, with particular attention to Finland.

Abstract

The crime model used in this analysis holds that for a crime to take place there must be a motivated and competent offender, a suitable target (situation) opportunity, and insufficient control. The author argues that conditions created by European economic integration carry these crime- productive dimensions. Integration will foster the free movement of labor and people between countries. This will increase offender mobility and opportunity, foster the deterioration of local networks responsible for informal social control, improve possibilities for organized and organizational crimes, produce a cross-fertilization of crime techniques and types of crime, and stimulate urbanization. There will also be a polarization in the standard of living of local populations, thus stimulating acquisitive crimes. Increasing crime has typically led to repressive police responses, as informal social controls become less effective. 15 references