Understanding the Experience of Police Stops in Europe

Citizen profiling during weapon controls in Amsterdam: Observing potential biases

by Hans Myhre Sunde & Mara van Dalen Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime & Law Enforcement (NSCR) This…

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“Your Breath, Your Voice” – Stop and Search featured in an Exhibition and about George Floyd, Protest, and Antiracism in Norway

By Michelle A. Tisdel, Ph.D., Social anthropologist In the summer of 2020, millions of people worldwide protested after police officers…

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Norwegian police implementation of a receipt system

by Randi Solhjell and Helene Gundhus Ethnic profiling and discriminatory practices by the police in Norway have been raised as…

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Entanglement, Positionality and doing Research on Racial Profiling – How can we understand the Experience of Police Stops?

While I am writing this blog post, Americans, Europeans and Africans take to the streets protesting the killings of George…

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Stopped by the police? So what!

New emergency police powers in the UK and across the globe mean that the police may choose to use the…

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