Publications & projects

Selected research projects

I am Principal Investigator in the WP5, Policy recommendations, in ISEDA Innovative Solutions to Eliminate Domestic Abuse project (HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-0, 2022-2025), Director of the DIGNITEAS Challenges of Tackling Digital Violence Against Women in Police Work, Crime Process and Support Services research project (Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities 2022-2023), and Vice director and Principal Investigator of DIGISOS Encountering Digital Violence in Social and Health Care research project and consortium (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, STM VTR 2023-2025). Recent years I have been the director of ERASEGBV Education and Raising Awareness in Schools to Prevent and Encounter Gender-Based Violence -EU project (Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme, 2020-2022). My other recent research projects include CEDV Coronavirus Epidemic in Experiences of Domestic Violence and the Use of Services Consortium (Parliament of Finland 2020-2021) and Encountering Domestic Violence and Multi-Professional Cooperation among the Police and Social and Health Care Professionals (European Commission, JUST/2016/ RGEN/AG/VAWA) EU project.

I have acted as either the director or deputy director of several research projects including topics such as Professional Practices and Occupational Health in Social and Health Care Sector (2011-2014 Emil Aaltonen Foundation), Encountering Violence in Social and Health Care Organizations (2011-2014 Academy of Finland), Agency, Care and Social Suffering (2008-2010 Academy of Finland), Violence Intervention in the Specialist Health Care (2009-2010 EU Daphne III programme) and Capabilities, Institutions, Dispositions and Power in Developed Societies (2006-2008 Academy of Finland).

ISEDA Innovative Solutions to Eliminate Domestic Abuse

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ERASE GBV Education and Raising Awareness in Schools to Prevent and Encounter Gender-Based Violence

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Impacts of the coronavirus epidemic on experiences of domestic violence and the use of services (KOVÄ)

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DIGNITEAS – Challenges of tackling digital violence against women in police work, criminal procedure, and support services

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DigiSOS – Encountering Digital Violence in Social and Health Care

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Selected books

Violence, Gender and Affect – Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices

(Palgrave Macmillan 2021)

Editors: Marita Husso, Sanna Karkulehto, Tuija Saresma, Aarno Laitila, Jari Eilola, Heli Siltala

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-56930-3

As the first research anthology to examine harmful interpersonal, institutional and ideological practices as affective and gendered processes, the book offers insights for understanding and resolving social problems related to violence and its prevention. The book introduces interpersonal violence as a source of intersectional inequality and as an integral part of…
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Interpersonal Violence – Differences and Connections

(Routledge 2017)

Editors: Marita Husso, Tuija Virkki, Marianne Notko, Helena Hirvonen, Jari Eilola

https://www.routledge.com/Interpersonal-Violence-Differences-and-Connections/Husso-Virkki-Notko-Hirvonen-Eilola/p/book/9780367877255

From early modernity to today, society has encountered various forms of interpersonal violence. Through exploration of particular areas within Europe and Russia to Africa, America and Asia, this collection presents both differences and connections among various forms of interpersonal violence in different times, places, institutional orders and…
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Parisuhdeväkivalta. Lyötyjen aika ja tila.

(Vastapaino 2003, second and third edition 2013 and 2023)

[The time and space of interpersonal violence in intimate relationships]

Marita Husso

The book examines why it is difficult to let go of a violent relationship and what ties the abused women to their homes and violent relationships. At the same time she unravels the factors that make it difficult to talk about violence and especially about the experience of being abused in an intimate relationship. She also addresses the difficulties related to intervention and helping and…
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Recent articles and chapters

Anne Parkatti, Marita Husso & Mia Tammelin (2023) Ammatillinen toimijuus ja tunteet pakotetussa etätyössä. Focus Localis 3/2023, 23-39.

Husso, Marita, Karkulehto, Sanna, Saresma, Tuija, Laitila, Aarno, Eilola, Jari & Siltala Heli (eds.) (2021)
Gender, Violence and Affect; Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices.
Palgrave Macmillan.

Sisko Piippo, Marita Husso, Pasi Hirvonen, Marianne Notko & Katerina Glumbikova (2021)
Institutional and Affective Practices of Domestic Violence Interventions in Social work: Malignant Positioning of the Victims (pp. 113-133). In Husso, Marita, Karkulehto, Sanna, Saresma, Tuija, Laitila, Aarno, Eilola, Jari & Siltala Heli (eds) Gender, Violence and Affect; Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices. Palgrave Macmillan.

Marita Husso, Sanna Karkulehto, Tuija Saresma, Aarno Laitila, Jari Eilola & Heli Siltala (2021)
Ideological, Institutional and Affective Practices of Interpersonal Violence (pp. 3-26). In Husso, Marita, Karkulehto, Sanna, Saresma, Tuija, Laitila, Aarno, Eilola, Jari & Siltala Heli (eds.) Gender, Violence and Affect; Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices. Palgrave Macmillan.

Marita Husso, Elli Hyväri, Anniina Kaittila, Johanna Hietamäki, Anu Karhinen-Soppi, Outi Kekkonen (2021)
Korona, koti ja kontrolli. Työntekijöiden näkemyksiä lähisuhdeväkivallan kohteina olleiden avun hakemisen ja saamisen haasteista korona-aikana. Sosiaalilääketieteellinen aikakauslehti – Journal of Social Medicine, 58 (3), 349-360.

Johanna Hietamäki, Marjukka Huttunen & Marita Husso (2021)
Gender differences in witnessing and the prevalence of intimate partner violence from the perspective of children in Finland. Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9), 4724;

Dean Ajduković, Ivana Car, Helena Päivinen, Anna Sala-Bubaré, Berta Vall Castello & Marita Husso (2021)
Building capacity for prevention of gender-based violence in the school context. Frontiers in Psychology, section Educational Psychology.

Marita Husso & Risto Heiskala (2021)
The Power of Institutions: The Case of Gendered Agency. In: Semiotic Sociology. Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology, pp 135-156. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Marita Husso, Marianne Notko, Tuija Virkki, Juha Holma, Aarno Laitila and Heli Siltala (2021)
Domestic violence interventions in social and health care settings: Challenges of temporary projects and short-term solutions. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 36 (23-24): 11461-11482

Matti Rautiainen, Marita Husso & Sisko Piippo (2022)
Aineenopettajaksi opiskelevien koulukokemuksia sukupuolistuneesta väkivallasta. Kasvatus & Aika – Education & Time, 16 (4).

Helena Päivinen, Marita Husso & Satu Lidman (2022)
Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at Schools in Finland (pp. 56-71). In Yoshie Yokoyama (ed.) Preventive Methods of Child Abuse. Igagu-Shoin Ltd. Tokyo.

Monica Fagerlund, Jarmo Houtsonen, Marianne Notko & Marita Husso (2022)
Conceptualising Violence in Close Relationships: Discrepancies between Police Conceptions and the Letter of Law. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 37–56

Sisko Piippo, Marianne Notko, Marita Husso & Janet Carter Anand (2022)
Framing Social Work Discourses of Violence Against Women. Insights From Finland and India. Affilia,37 (3), 487–504

Marianne Notko, Marita Husso, Sisko Piippo, Monica Fagerlund & Jarmo Houtsonen (2022)
Intervening in Domestic Violence: Interprofessional Collaboration Among Social and Health Care Professionals and the Police, Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36 (1), 15-23