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Statistical analysis of the factors affecting sentencing in economic offences cases Sentencing practices have been discussed somewhat in earlier legal studies. However, there is currently no empirical evidence with statistical certainty. In this study, we analyse sentencing in economic offence cases from 2015 to 2020 using a quantitative method. We made several significant findings in this study. The first is that the choice between conditional and unconditional imprisonment is made before the length of the imprisonment is decided. The second is that in economic offences, the sentence length is mostly based on the financial benefit obtained by the crime and the financial damage caused by it, which explains most of the sentence length. The final finding was that in economic offences, the sentence is almost always conditional if the length of the sentence is less than two years. This finding indicates that District Court practices differ from the precedents of the Supreme Court.

Sustainability is most often defined through three dimensions: environmental, economic, and social. In legislative acts, environmental sustainability is often pursued directly, whereas the other two are pursued indirectly or not at all, depending on which definition of sustainability is used. This study includes a literature review about "sustainability" as a concept and a case study about using this concept in Finnish legislation and preparatory materials. This study aims to establish what type of conceptualization of sustainability is used in Finnish law drafting and what types of roles the different sustainability dimensions have in the preparatory materials in Finland. This study shows that sustainability is too unclear of a goal to be directly pursued with legislation. Instead of incorporating sustainability, generally speaking, as the object of every legislative act, it is recommended that separate policy goals that promote individual aspects of sustainability are pursued with individual laws., Visions for Sustainability, More Visions on line (2021)