Eeva Järveläinen

About me

I work at Laurea UAS as the leader of the Correctional Services Research Group and as Principal Lecturer responsible for the Master’s Degree Programme in Development and Management in Correctional Services. My research interests are related to the digitalization of prisons, competence requirements of correctional services professionals, supervised probationary freedom, the significance of the client–employee relationship in supporting desistance, and multiagency and crime-spesific social work.

Education

PhD, Associate Professor (Social Work)

Research group

Correctional Services Research group

Projects

RILA – Crime-specific child welfare as a means of supporting young people’s social inclusion and desistance from crime (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, VTR), 2026–2028

Re-entry – Re-entry and Desistance from crime in a Digital era: A cross-national comparative project, (SSHRC), 2023–2027

DigiIN – Towards socially inclusive digital society: transforming service culture; Marginalised groups sub study (Research Council of Finland, The Strategic Research Council, SRC), 2019–2025

VAPAA – Multiagency social work to support clients released from prison in a digitalizing society (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, VTR), 2024–2025

DigiRise – The Digitalizing Criminal Sanctions Sector: A qualitative study on changes in the employee-client relationship and competency requirements in the field of criminal sanctions due to digitalization (Prison and Probation Service of Finland Research and Development Fund), 2023-2024

Publications

F.-Dufour, I., Farrall, S., Järveläinen, E., Rantala, H., Rennie, A., Tetri, B., & Ihamouine-Molto, L. (2026). Re-Entry and Desistance from Crime in a Digital Era (1st ed.). Routledge. In Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003747673

Järveläinen, E., Rantala, H., & Suonio, M. (2026). Balancing bureaucracy and humane encounters: A qualitative analysis of social workers’ ethical reflections on supporting clients with a history of crime in Finland. Ethics and Social Welfare, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2026.2690004    

Järveläinen, E., & Rantanen, T. (2026). Digital Inclusion in Finnish Smart Prison: A Qualitative Analysis of Incarcerated Women’s Experiences. Social Inclusion, 14, 12633. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12633  

Järveläinen, E., & Rantanen, T. (2026). Incarcerated people’s limitations of digital agency and re-entry into digitalised society: A qualitative study in a women’s prison in Finland. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3774  

Rantanen, T., Järveläinen, E., & Leppälahti, T. (2025). Trust and use of digital social and healthcare services among incarcerated people: A mixed methods study in Finnish prisons. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70055

Järveläinen, E., & Rantanen, T. (2024). Realisation of the principle of normalisation in the adoption of ICTs in a women’s prison: A Finnish qualitative study. Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231211014

Järveläinen, E., Rantanen, T., & Toikko, T. (2024). Finnish supervised probationary freedom as support for a desistance from crime. European Probation Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203231217175  

Järveläinen, E., Rantanen, T., & Toikko, T. (2023). Meanings of a client-employee relationship in social work: Client’s perspective on desisting from crime. Nordic Social Work Research, 13(2), 318–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2021.1981984   

Rantanen, T., Järveläinen, E., & Leppälahti, T. (2022). Self-efficacy and Use of Digital Health Care and Social Welfare Services Among Incarcerated People: Cross-sectional Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(5), e36799. https://doi.org/10.2196/36799  

Järveläinen, E. (2022). The multiple meanings of social interaction – Rhetoric analysis on the significance of social interaction between social work professionals and people with a history of crime. Doctoral dissertation. University of Eastern Finland. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/27443  

Rantanen, T., Järveläinen, E., & Leppälahti, T. (2021). Prisoners as Users of Digital Health Care and Social Welfare Services: A Finnish Attitude Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5528. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115528  

Järveläinen, E. & Rantanen, T. (2021). Incarcerated people’s challenges for digital inclusion in Finnish prisons. Nordic Journal of Criminology, 22(2), 240–259. https://doi.org/10.1080/2578983X.2020.1819092

 Järveläinen, E. & Rantanen, T. (2019). Social interaction between employee and offender in supervised probationary freedom in Finland. Nordic Journal of Criminology, 20(2), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/2578983X.2019.1637093