Jatkuvissa

Jatkuvissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective jatkuva, meaning continuous or ongoing. It is used in everyday Finnish to describe situations or conditions that persist over time, and it commonly appears in legal language. For example, phrases such as jatkuvissa oloissa (under continuous conditions) or jatkuvissa rikoksissa (in continuing offenses) are typical.

In a legal context, jatkuvissa is closely associated with the concept of jatkuva rikos, or a continuing/offense that unfolds over a period of time. A jatkuva rikos refers to a criminal act or sequence of acts that are connected and continue without a clear break, so they are treated as one ongoing offense rather than as separate offenses. The classification affects how liability is determined and how punishment is applied, with the overall impact and duration of the conduct taken into account. The exact interpretation and application of the concept are defined by legislation and case law, and depend on the specifics of each case.

Outside of law, the form jatkuvissa is also used in neutral descriptive language to indicate that something is happening or existing in a continuing manner. It can modify nouns in the inessive plural, reflecting ongoing state, process, or condition.

Overall, jatkuvissa serves both as a grammatical form used to express ongoing conditions and as a term linked to the Finnish criminal-law concept of a continuing offense, where the conduct persists over time and is considered a single continuing act for purposes of liability and sentencing.