School and home-based responding in an online youth crime survey: A natural experiment related to school lockdown in spring 2020. Issue 2 (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaakinen, Markus; Kivivuori, Janne; Enzmann, Dirk; Raeste, Anna; Näsi, Matti
• Is Part Of: Nordic journal of criminology. Volume 23:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 123
• Page End: 135
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Method effects -- school -- lockdown -- sensitive topic surveys -- crime -- covid-19 -- pandemic; Criminology -- Periodicals; Crime prevention -- Periodicals; Crime -- Periodicals; Criminology; Crime prevention; Crime; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 364.05
• DOI: 10.1080/2578983X.2022.2097901
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2578-983X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Our study draws from a natural experiment created by the school lockdowns in Finland during the 2020 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic to compare at-school and home-based responses to an online youth crime survey. Using our quasi-experimental design, we examine how at-home responses during the Covid-19 lockdown affected the sample composition and reported prevalence of offences in the nationally representative Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study 2020 (FSRD-2020) survey (N = 5503). We compare these within-year changes in 2020 to the earlier FSRD-2016 survey (N = 5955) that did not involve a transition to at-home response. According to our analysis, the share of males decreased in remote schooling. We also detected a decrease in reported offences during lockdown (remote school response) in several types of offences, net of observed compositional changes. The findings suggest that at-school data collection helps secure more inclusive samples and encourages students to self-report their offending behaviours.