Emma Holkeri
LL.M
The Sociology of Law and Criminology ethhol@utu.fi +358 29 450 4416 +358 50 412 8351 Caloniankuja 3 Turku |
Critical criminology; defining crime; knowledge production; sociology of law; critical control research; policing and security; school shooting; school violence; youth; WPR approach; ontological politics; critical discourse analysis; subjectivity; reflexivity; qualitative research
LAWPOL, LAWRADAR (lakitutka.fi); European Group for the Study of Deviance & Social Control (country representative)
At the centre of my dissertation is the phenomenon of school threats. In Finland, the control of and the knowledge production regarding this phenomenon have changed since the school shootings in Jokela, in 2007, and in Kauhajoki, in 2008. I use empirical data to illustrate problems in the knowledge production regarding school threats. I also reflect my own research process from this point of view. I draw from the philosophical debates on the objectivity of research and knowledge. I lean on critical criminology, specifically research which illustrates the link between defining and control, emphasizes the selectivity of control, and criticizes the data interests of mainstream criminology and the tendency to ignore analysis of power. I see school threats as an example of the intertwined nature of interference and non-interference to violence in society. I would like to draw attention to the “marked by risk” position of young people. I criticize threat analysis and suggest alternative ways of crime prevention, such as insights from critical pedagogical research.
In my teaching, I consider it essential to make the field of criminology understandable and approachable for those who first get to know it. In my lectures, I typically discuss what criminology is and what it could be. My expertise is related to critical criminology and concretizing it by examples from the Finnish context. My teaching draws from research related to my dissertation topic as well as from other current criminological research. For example, topics include police violence, victim blaming, methodological questions, and literacy in crime statistics and media.
In the Faculty of Law, I have participated in the course Sociology of Law and Criminology for several years and worked as a university teacher responsible for the course in the autumn of 2022 and 2023. In 2020, I taught a similar course at the Open university with my colleague. In the Faculty, I have also lectured on specialization courses and in advanced studies and supervised theses for Master’s degree. I have also given individual lectures on the basics of criminology, for example, in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Activism: Short snippets of activism from Finland (2023)
- European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control (EG) Newsletter
- Tilannetorjunnan soveltaminen seksuaalirikoksiin johtaa uhrien syyllistämiseen (2022)
- Haaste
- Turvallisuusmaininnat ja lainvalmistelun perustietoja vuosien 1991–2017 hallituksen esityksissä (2019) Emma Holkeri, Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Nea Peltoniemi, István Rytkönen
- Producing definition, producing control: (Self)reflection of the academic constructions of “school shooting threats” (2018) NSfK’s 60. Research Seminar 14. - 16. May 2018, Hotel Rantapuisto, Helsinki Emma Holkeri
- Turvallisuuspuhe lisääntynyt lainsäädäntötyössä (2018)
- Haaste
- Crime and Context - Comparing Conventional and ICT-Related School Shooting Threats (2015)
- European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
- Exposure to online hate material and social trust among Finnish youth (2015)
- Information Technology and People
- School shooting threats as a national phenomenon – Comparison of police reports and psychiatric reports in Finland (2015)
- Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
- Association between online harassment and exposure to harmful online content: A cross-national comparison between the United States and Finland. (2014)
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Crime consumption online – Reflections of combining criminology with economic sociology (2014) NSfKs 56. forskerseminar - Skarrildhus, Danmark 2014: Ungdom og kriminalitet Emma Holkeri
- Exposure to online hate among young social media users (2014) Soul of Society: A Focus on the Lives of Children & Youth Oksanen Atte, Hawdon James, Holkeri Emma, Näsi Matti, Räsänen Pekka
- Concepts and dimensions of online hate – A literature review (2013) NSfKs 55. forskerseminar. Methodologies and methods in criminology Emma Holkeri
- Preliminary findings on the concepts of online hate (2013)
- Research papers in economic sociology