Discovery of Hidden Crime

Janne Kivivuori studied sociology at the University of Helsinki where he received his PhD in 1994. Since 2000 he has been the Research Director of the criminological unit of Finland's National Research Institute of Legal Policy. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki. His research has focused on delinquent behaviour, homicide, and methodology of crime measurement. He has published widely in criminological journals, such as British Journal of Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, and Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. Since 2010 he has been member of the Steering Group of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Key Concepts ; 3. Contours of the Battlefield ; 4. Discovery of Hidden Crime ; 5. Deployment of Hidden Crime Studies in the Nordic Area ; 6. Concluding Discussion

Janne Kivivuori's Discovery of Hidden Crime is one of the best social histories of criminology in print. It focuses on the scientific, cultural, and political origins of the self-report delinquency survey, but in many ways is a broader history of criminology itself, a sociology of criminological knowledge... The book even has a plot line. It starts with a mystery-how can we break into that locked room to discover the amount of hidden crime?; it chronicles the long search for the tools to pry open the lock; and it shows how criminologists finally broke into the room where the treasure lay... Above all, this book is valuable as a social history of criminology, one that will, I hope, stimulate courses in this field.