The author conducted a three-year fieldwork with methadone users and their meetings with both health services and the police. In a small city like Oslo, methadone users are frequently stopped by the police since they are known by the police and/or know the drug seller community (information) and are frequently searched for drugs. If they have more than one user dose (e.g. methadone is also a drug re-sold on the streets), the police are tasked to report, eventually resulting in a court case (with more reports piling up) and shorter and longer sentences depending on the number of reported cases by the police (e.g. 15, 30 or 60 reported cases for one person). This is an ethnographic study using in particular participant observation to describe different stop and search situations – some more friendly and others deeply problematic to those experiencing them depending on the context.
Latest News
International conference POLICE STOPS ACROSS EUROPE (28 February 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands)
News
For more than four years, our EU COST funded network on Police Stops has been gathering information, hearing from experts…
Read moreWorkshop 'Registration of police stops and ethnicity and defining the police stop' 31 Aug - 2 Sept 2022
News
In line with our project’s ambition to share learning and explore the issue police stops across Europe, we are organising…
Read moreCfP European Journal of Policing Studies - Special Issue: The Dynamics of Police Stops
News
European Journal of Policing Studies Special Issue: The Dynamics of Police Stops Guest editors: Mike Rowe Sofie de Kimpe Vincenzo…
Read morePolstops Newsletter n4 (June 2022)
News
At last, we have been able to meet again. And we can now begin to identify what we have missed…
Read more