ABSTRACT
This article introduces the results of an empirical research project on the police investigation of harms caused by occupational safety crimes in Finland, a jurisdiction in which such crimes are – somewhat unusually – the responsibility of mainstream policing agencies. It begins with an account of the location – and absence – of these harms in crime control strategies and action plans against economic crime. This is the case even though safety crimes are included in the penal code, and in the concept of economic crime as it is defined by the police. The empirical evidence upon which this paper is based is an analysis of data gathered as part of a survey of police in Finland which focuses on their perceptions about and approaches to occupational safety incidents, the investigation of safety crimes, and the perceived place of such offences within the criminal justice system.1
