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Background: To investigate the impact of adolescent violent and non-violent criminality and subsequent risk of morbidity and mortality in adulthood in a large Swedish cohort of young men conscripted for military service in 1969/70. Methods: The cohort consisted of 49,398 18-year-old Swedish conscripts followed up for morbidity and mortality up to the age of 55 years in Swedish national registers. Information about convictions for crime before conscription was obtained from national crime registers. Data from a survey at conscription were scrutinized to get information on potential confounders. Results: Hospitalization due to alcohol and drug related diagnoses and attempted suicide were significantly more evident in the violent group compared to non-violent criminals and non-criminals. More than one fifth (21.13%) of the young violent offenders, 12.90% of the non-violent offenders and 4.96% of the non-criminals had died during the follow-up period. In Cox proportional multivariate analyses, young violent offenders had twice the hazard (HR = 4.29) of all-cause mortality than the non-violent offenders (HR = 2.16) during the follow-up period. Alcohol and drug related mortality, suicide and fatal accidents were most evident in both violent and non-violent offenders. Conclusions: Men with adolescent criminality received more inpatient care due to alcohol and drug related diagnoses and attempted suicide as adults. Mortality due to unnatural causes, alcohol, and drug related diagnoses, suicide and accidents was most evident in violent offenders, while these causes of death were much lower in non-criminals. Men with adolescent criminality are a high-risk group for multiple adverse health outcomes and for early death. Efforts for detection of substance use and psychiatric disorders in this group is important for the prevention work in both local- and community levels as well as national prevention programs.

In this paper, we explore the general societal and political tendency today to encode and digitalise work, production and lived life to as great an extent as possible. We study this by focusing on work at universities where women tend to take care of most of the collective, relational and responsive duties related to knowledge production, education and the working community. We ask, what happens to gender, work and knowledge in the process where academic capitalism decodes the parameters by which the latter three notions are assessed, and evaluated

In this article, we aim to understand how planning theory and practice should approach new urban entities and their transforming meanings. We argue that planning practice has difficulties in identifying and recognising developmental processes where the human attachment to the local environment gradually changes the identity and use of an area. Instead, these processes are interpreted as disruptions in the planned course of action. We illustrate our viewpoint with an empirical example from Finland. The case is about a significant spot of biodiversity in a completely man-made environment. The study serves as an example of how artefacts actively co-shape the events and environment around them and thus create a relationship between humans and their surroundings. Drawing on a science and technology studies-inspired perspective on the relationships between human and non-human actors, we stress the importance of artefacts, local setting and processual development in urban planning.

The concept of sustainability has been a part of theory and practice in agriculture for a long time, but the diverse roots of the concept have led to a number of different definitions of sustainable agriculture. This paper provides an overview of the policy development of sustainable agriculture in Finland by examining internal and external discourses of sustainability and the evolution in different dimensions of sustainability. We show that the debate on sustainability within European Union's Common Agricultural Policy and Finnish agri-environmental policy are reflected in attempts to implement and monitor sustainability in agriculture in Finland. However, indicators suggest a largely non-sustainable condition. This has contributed to a shift in policy objectives from sustainable agriculture to sustainable rural development, especially in the EU context. As there are commonly trade-offs between the economic, ecological and social dimensions of sustainable development, future developments in sustainable agriculture will inevitably be characterized by continuous redefinitions of problems, paradigm revisions and reassessments of actions already taken.

AbstractBusinesses are facing increasing pressure from society and regulators to become more sustainable and do their part to address the climate crisis. These businesses will require continual sustainability innovation formulation and implementation processes to meet these demands. Collaborative foresight (CF) has high potential for helping business sectors produce a continuous stream of sustainability options to select and deploy in finished products. Recent developments in futures studies indicate that a capability called futures literacy (FL)—acts of individuals or groups switching their modes and purposes for imagining futures—is relevant to the production of innovation-related outcomes. FL may be key to driving the effectiveness of such foresight collaborations; however, little is known about its exact functions in such business networks and processes. This article examines this issue in the context of a luxury-cruise shipbuilding network in Finland. It analyzes research data from the foresight workstreams of a multi-partner consortium active across three sequential projects between 2016 and 2022. The foresight team took an interventionist research approach, conducting interviews and workshops as part of all three projects. In this article, we analyze the materials produced from these interventions for the appearances of FL enhancement. Based on this analysis, we found that FL can play key functions in CF, such as supporting actors in perceiving new developmental pathways, identifying new opportunities for innovation, and identifying alternative priorities built from new realizations and insights—a finding in line with existing claims by FL scholars and educators. This article contributes to ongoing discussions about the significance of CF and FL in addressing the most pressing environmental issues of our time. It offers an evidence-based argument for the relevance of taking a capabilities approach (i.e., introducing and developing FL) for business networks seeking to use foresight when engaging in sustainability innovation.

Tässä käytäntökuvauksessa avataan sosiaalipedagogista työotetta Harjulan Setlementti ry:n hallinnoimassa Olopiste – aktiivisuudella tasapainoista arkea -hankkeessa ja kuvataan LAB-ammattikorkeakoulun Lahden kampuksen sosionomiopiskelijoiden mahdollisuuksia rakentaa omaa sosiaalipedagogista asiantuntijuuttaan ja toimintapätevyyttäänaidossa työelämäympäristössä.Käytäntökuvauksessa esitellään vaihtoehtoisen työelämään integroidun oppimistehtävän toteutusta Sosiaalinen osallisuus -opintojaksolla lukuvuonna 2020–2021. Oppimistehtävä toteutettiin paritehtävänä ja se sisälsi opintojakson teoriaan perehtymistä ja kaksi työpäivää Olopisteellä. Tekstissä tarkastellaan, miten opiskelijoiden sosiaalipedagoginen toimintapätevyys rakentui oppimistehtävän myötä.Opintojakson lopuksi opiskelijat tuottivat teoriaa ja käytäntöä yhdistäviä reflektioita, joita tässä käytäntökuvauksessa on jäsennetty Madsenin sosiaalipedagogisen toimintapätevyyden mallin mukaan. Reflektioiden pohjalta keskeiseksi havainnoksi muodostui se, että opiskelijoiden toimintapätevyys lähti kehittymään. Opettajien ja valmentajien yhteistyöllä oli merkittävä rooli oppimistehtävän toteuttamisessa ja opiskelijoiden ohjaamisessa.Matalan kynnyksen paikkana Olopiste tarjosi turvallisia oppimismahdollisuuksia alkuvaiheen opiskelijoille. Vaihtoehtoinen suoritustapa tuki opiskelijoiden osallisuutta ja toimijuutta. Opiskelijoiden oppimisprosessista antama palaute oli monipuolista ja lisäsi opettajien ja valmentajien ymmärrystä siitä, miten erilaisia opiskelijoiden oppimisprosessitolivat.