Kriminalitetskontroll og sikkerhetspolitikk glir stadig mer over i hverandre, både når det gjelder retorikk og arbeidsmetoder. For å forstå hvorfor fenomener som tidligere kunne bli behandlet som nasjonale politisaker og ...

What does it mean to study security from a critical perspective? This question continues to haunt critical security studies. Conversations about normative stances, political engagement, and the role of critique are mainstays ...

This article contributes to scholarship on digital sociology by addressing the methodological challenge of gaining access to hard-to-reach online communities. We use assemblage theory to argue how collaborative efforts of ...

Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work. Based on empirical research about ...

Many aspects of law enforcement increasingly rely on algorithmic processing of digital data. Whereas most recent critical scholarship focuses on the algorithm as the decisive factor in the production of knowledge and ...

Mareile Kaufmann er forsker ved Institutt for kriminologi og rettssosiologi, Universitetet i Oslo og Peace Research Institute Oslo. Hun har forsket på de sosiale dimensjonene ved digital informasjon og teknologi i over ti ...

This article establishes the relevance of surveillance and secrecy as methodological tools, and it substantiates the argument that surveillance and secrecy are not oppositional in character, but overlap. It does so by ...

Hackers tend to be portrayed as criminals or activists. In current digital media landscapes, however, hacking inhabits many places. This chapter’s aim is to complicate mainstream notions of hacking and acknowledge its ...

Vocations and visions are vital to data analyses: without them, there is neither data, nor analysis. Visions are the solutions that technology designers and data analysts strive towards, and vocations are those callings ...