Elsa Saarikkomäki
Dr. Soc. Sc., Postdoctoral Researcher, Docent in Criminology
elsa.saarikkomaki@utu.fi +358 29 450 2134 +358 50 478 7312 Caloniankuja 3 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7497-4754 |
Areas of expertise
criminology, qualitative and quantitative research methods, policing, private security, ethnic profiling, sociology of law
criminology, qualitative and quantitative research methods, policing, private security, ethnic profiling, sociology of law
Biography
Currently I am conducting a postdoctoral research project on legitimacy of private security. I am an Editor in chief of 'Haaste' trimestrial publication.
I have a Docent in Criminology (Associate Professor, UTU). I hold a PhD in sociology (2017, University of Helsinki) and I have previously worked ten years at the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy (University of Helsinki). My research there has included research topics such as trust in policing, young people’s experiences of police and private security guards (PhD), crimes against businesses and crime victims.
I have participated in an interdisciplinary research project on asylum seeker decisions (University of Turku). Together with international researchers we have led a comparative project about experiences of policing among ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries (University of Turku). I have strong expertise in empirical methods, both qualitative and quantitative.
Research
In my current project, I am interested to study the effects of the rapid rise of private security, which indicates a shift from a criminal justice system monopolized by the state and its police to a pluralized policing system. I am studying experiences of ethnic profiling and how to improve relations between young people and policing agents. Furthermore, I am interested to solve to what extent private security has succeeded in legitimating their role in policing. These aims are studied empirically and theoretically. By developing approaches of procedural justice, securitization and privatization of policing, the study produces knew knowledge about societal changes.
Please see the full list of my publications attached in the links above.
Teaching
I have taught criminology and sociology of law in different universities, University of Turku (Faculty of Law) and University of Helsinki (Faculty of Social Sciences). Currently, I am teaching a master's thesis seminar and special study modules related to topics of crime control, crime, society and power.
I have developed with my colleague ‘a peer pressure and support method’ for writing conclusion section for article-based dissertation and for cooperating during writing. Based on it, we published an open access article in Journal of University Pedagogy. Title: Vertaistuella tohtoriksi: tällä mallilla artikkeliväitöskirjan yhteenveto syntyy (melkein) kuin itsestään.
Publications
- Ilmastonmuutoksen ja luontokadon kysymykset tulevat yhä enemmän myös kriminaalipolitiikkaan (2022)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Rethinking police procedural justice (2022)
- Theoretical Criminology
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Collectivized Discretion: Seeking Explanations for Decreased Asylum Recognition Rates in Finland After Europe's 2015 “Refugee Crisis” (2021)
- International Migration Review
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Etnisten vähemmistönuorten kokemukset virallisesta kontrollista ja leimasta (2021)
- Kriminologia
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Improving private security–youth relations in quasi-public spaces: control, care, cooperation (2021)
- International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Koronaviruspandemian vaikutuksista kriminaalipolitiikkaan, rikollisuuteen ja uhrien asemaan tiedetään vasta vähän (2021)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Lapsen oikeuksiin kiinnitettävä enemmän huomiota kriminaalipolitiikassa (2021)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Rikoskontrollin muuttuvat toimintaympäristöt hämärtävät sektoreiden rajoja (2021)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations (2021)
- Policing and Society
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Työpaikoilla tapahtuvien rikosten tunnistamiseen ja ehkäisyyn tarvitaan kattavia keinoja (2021)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Ethnic Minority Youths’ Encounters With Private Security Guards: Unwelcome in the City Space (2020)
- Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Minor harassments: Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police (2020)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Rikoksen uhrin tilanteen ymmärtäminen on tärkeää (2020)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Huumeiden käyttö ja kontrolli (2019)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Nuorten kohtaaminen kauppakeskuksissa: Onnistumisia ja haasteita järjestyksenvalvojien näkökulmasta (2019)
- Nuorisotutkimus
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Turvallisempi lähiympäristö – kenelle? (2019)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Vähittäiskauppaan ja majoitus- ja ravintola-alaan kohdistuvat rikokset: toinen kansallinen yritysuhritutkimus 2018 (2019) Saarikkomäki Elsa, Lehti Martti, Kivivuori Janne
(Published development or research report or study (D4)) - Vihapuhe 2.0 – Ilmiön muutokset ja siihen reagointi (2019)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Yritykset rikosten kohteena (2019)
- Haaste
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Yritykset rikosten kohteena (2019) Rikollisuustilanne 2018: rikollisuuskehitys tilastojen ja tutkimusten valossa Martti Lehti, Elsa Saarikkomäki, Petri Danielsson
(Book chapter (B2))