Y-GANG
Nuorten ryhmät: vapaa-aika kaupunkitilassa, kontrolli ja rikollisuus
Timetable: 01.09.2025- 31.08.2029
Project status: Active
Unit
Funders: Suomen akatemia
Project budget: 400 000€ - 450 000€
Project external partners: Nuorisotutkimusseura, Helsingin Yliopisto
Strategic research and education profiles: Lapset, nuoret ja oppiminen
Sustainable development goals: Eriarvoisuuden vähentäminen
; Kestävät kaupungit ja yhteisöt; Rauha, oikeudenmukaisuus ja hyvä hallinto
Keywords
- Criminology
- control
- crime
- Interviews
- prison
- plural policing
- register data analysis
- urban leisure
- youth research
- Youth groups
- statistical analysis
Summary: The project examines youth groups and group crime in urban spaces, as well as the control of youth in groups. The consortium project brings youth research and criminology into active dialogue in a new way, combining ethnographic, survey and register data. By studying young people’s group relations in a multidisciplinary way and using different methods, we will gain insight into how leisure opportunities, youth cultural and group-related factors and control prevent and push young people towards crime.
The aim of the research is to produce high quality academic knowledge to inform the current public debate on youth crime, urban leisure and street gangs and the relationships between them. By providing new insights into the views and experiences of young people, we will create a deep and articulated understanding of the phenomenon and new concepts for tackling it.
The consortium includes the University of Turku (Faculty of Law), the Finnish Youth Research Society, University of Helsinki (Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy)
The aim of the research is to produce high quality academic knowledge to inform the current public debate on youth crime, urban leisure and street gangs and the relationships between them. By providing new insights into the views and experiences of young people, we will create a deep and articulated understanding of the phenomenon and new concepts for tackling it.
The consortium includes the University of Turku (Faculty of Law), the Finnish Youth Research Society, University of Helsinki (Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy)
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