ICPSR's Savolainen (NACJD) receives 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award from the American Society of Criminology
Congratulations to Jukka Savolainen, who recently received the 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Developmental and Life Course
Criminology, for the article: “Changes in criminal offending around the time of job entry: a study of employment and desistance.” Skardhamar, T., & Savolainen, J. (2014). Criminology, 52(2), 263-291.
“This study examined a neglected aspect of the popular hypothesis that transitions to stable employment promote desistance from crime. Instead of attempting to estimate causal effect of employment on crime, the focus of this study was on one aspect of causal inference — timing.” Savolainen said. “Using administrative data from Norway, we were able to track monthly changes in offending around the time of employment. Results from smoothing spline regression models showed that it is extremely rare for offenders to make employment transitions until after a prolonged period of desistance from crime. For the most part, our results indicate that, contrary to the turning point hypothesis, it is implausible to expect naturally occurring employment transitions to trigger or even influence the process of desistance.”
Savolainen is Director of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at ICPSR, and a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. His research focuses on the causes of crime, violence, and delinquency.
Contact: Dory Knight-Ingram, dkni@umich.edu
Photo caption: Jukka Savolainen receives the 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award award from Prof David Farrington (Cambridge) the president of the ASC division of Life Course Criminology.
Dec 8, 2016