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Criminal Code of Finland

Finnish Act 39/1889

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ5185534 ↗
Source-derived summary

The criminal code of Finland (Finnish: rikoslaki, Swedish: strafflag) is the codification of the central legal source concerning criminal law in Finland.

History

The Criminal Code came into effect in 1894, and it has been modified numerous times since then.

See also

Law enforcement in Finland

References

Note: Since English is not an official language in Finland, the English translations of Finnish legislation at finlex.fi are unofficial but used by the Finnish Ministry of Justice.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Criminal Code of Finland” as finnish Act 39/1889. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1894—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Criminal, Code and Finland can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as finnish Act 39/1889. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5185534. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1894.

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This entry incorporates text from “Criminal Code of Finland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.