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Sollund, R. (2006). Racialisation in police stop and search practice – the Norwegian case. Critical Criminology, 14(3), 265-292.
Ethnic Minority, Ethnic Minority Background, Ethnic Minority Group, police discretion, Police Work
This paper explores the reasons for the conflictual relationship between the police and ethnic minority men in stop and search…
Read moreSollund, R. (2007). Tatt for en annen: En feltstudie av relasjonen mellom etniske minoriteter og politiet. [Mistaken for someone else: A field study of relations between ethnic minorities and the police]. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.
ethnic minorities, experiences, police stops, youth
Ragnhild Sollund (criminology) published on the topic of relations between ethnic minorities and the police through a book entitled “Mistaken…
Read moreOlsen, Hilgunn (2017) Open drug scenes and police strategies in Oslo, Norway, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 18:2, 141-156, DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2017.1388028
drug policy, dual-track policy, harm reduction, illicit drugs, open drug scene, Police strategies
As part of her ongoing PhD-project, Hilgunn Olsen has looked into differences in police strategies related to open drug scenes…
Read moreNafstad, Ida (2011) Changing Control of the Open Drug Scenes in Oslo— Crime, Welfare, Immigration Control, or a Combination?, Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 12:2, 128-152, DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2011.622074
Article is part of a PhD in criminology, defended 2013. She explores how drug users’ uses and experiences of the…
Read moreLeon Hernandez, I. A. (2019). Embodying experiences of (in)security : exploring ethnic minority youth’s encounters with the police and policing practices in Oslo. Master thesis. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås
ethnic minorities, experiencing police stops, security, violence
The police are a state institution with the power to coerce and maintain “order” within a society so that individuals…
Read moreFinstad, L. (2018). Hva er politi? [What is police?]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget
police, racialized profiling, stop and search
Chapter 4: Discussing "Guilty until proven innocent? On stop and search on potential suspects". This is a particularly useful reference…
Read moreFrantzen, E. (2001). Metadonmakt : møte mellom narkotikabrukere og norsk metadonpolitikk [Methadon power: Linking methadon users and the Norwegian Methadon politics]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget
Drug users, methadon, police stop and searches
The author conducted a three-year fieldwork with methadone users and their meetings with both health services and the police. In…
Read moreFinstad, L. (2000). Politiblikket [The Police Gaze]. Oslo: Pax Forlag.
deviant behavior, Police gaze, stop and search
This book, for the first time, provided a comprehensive criminological study of the police service, described by the police themselves.…
Read moreAasgaard, I. & M. Langford (2019) “Policing”, book chapter in Langford, Skivenes & Søvig (eds), Children Rights in Norway: an Implementation paradox. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Children, racial profiling, stop and search
This chapter specifically addressed racial profiling in Norway. Aasgaard and Langford debates the international critique of Norway (e.g. EU, UN)…
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