Anne
Alvesalo-Kuusi
Areas of expertise
Biography
Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi got her PhD from the University of Turku in 2003. From 1996 to 2007 she worked as a senior researcher at the Police College of Finland and until 2010 she held a similar position in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
Teaching
Inroduction to Sociology of Law and Criminology (Fi), Special Study Module for Sociology of Law (Fi), Special Study Module for Criminology (Fi), Advanced Studies in Sociology of Law and Criminology (Fi). Directs Doctoral Dissertations in Sociology of Law and Criminology.
Research
Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi has studied extensively in the area of economic and corporate crime control and criminal policy. In particular, her studies have focused on the problems of policing safety crimes and the misuse of migrant labour in Finland. Her areas of interest also include the control and regulations of work.
She is the Pi of several projects, most importantly LAWPOL, a research infrastructure that brings together political and legal documents related to public decision-making in one place and offers digital tools for their analysis.
https://lawpol.fi/en/