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.

Education

PhD, Associate Professor (Social Work)

Research group

Correctional Services Research group

Projects

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

Järveläinen, E., & Rantanen, T. (2025). 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, 57(3), 334–351, 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. 16(2), 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203231217175

Rantanen, T., Juujärvi, S., Silvennoinen, P., & Järveläinen, E. (2023). Haavoittuvassa asemassa olevien ryhmien digitaalinen syrjäytyminen sosiaali- ja terveysalan osaamisen haasteena. Ammattikasvatuksen aikakauskirja, 25(3), 50–69. https://doi.org/10.54329/akakk.137484

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://www.jmir.org/2022/5/e36799/

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. & Toikko, T. (2021). Meanings of a client-employee relationship in social work: Clients’ perspectives on desisting from crime. Nordic Social Work Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2021.1981984

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