Thomas Friis Søgaard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 143359 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas Friis Søgaard |
| PRENOMES | Thomas Friis |
| SOBRENOME | Søgaard |
| ASSINATURA | SØGAARD T F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1936-2346 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets
In the UK, the recent ‘turn to vulnerability’ in safeguarding and the criminal justice system has meant an increasing recognition that many children and vulnerable adults committing crimes, such as drug dealing, are in fact victims of criminal exploitation involving manipulation and coercion. This recognition is fairly recent, and the visibility of exploited children and adults is impacting how they are dealt with and safeguarded. In other parts …
Young adults’ sourcing and supply of opioids in a changing drug market
The study shows that young adults access opioids from a variety of sources that often start with sourcing opioids through social networks, especially during the early stages of use. These insights call for nuanced prevention strategies that move beyond individual consumer models and address the complex social dynamics of non-prescribed opioid access and use
Managing competition in hybrid drug markets
Background Social media platforms have come to play a key role in facilitating retail-level drug sales. While much existing research has focused on how digital technologies shape seller-customer relations, this article draws on a postphenomenological approach to explore how the affordances of digital technologies mediate and re-organize drug dealers’ interactions with competing dealers.Methods This article is based on in-depth digitally facilitat…
Global patterns in small-scale cannabis growers’ distribution practices
We discuss the implications of the findings on the structural process of import-substitution in low-end cannabis markets, including a growing normalization of cannabis supply
Conflict and social control among cannabis growers
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cannabis cultivation and use in 18 countries
This study is the first to document an increase in cannabis cultivation activity following COVID restrictions. Increased home cultivation was not only driven by higher use as a result of home isolation, but also by disruptions of wider illegal cannabis supply. Limitations of this study include the non-representativeness of the sample as well as differences in approaches and duration of restrictions in different countries
Global cannabis cultivation as a gendered activity
The findings presented here come from the first multi-national study to provide a descriptive analysis of gendered differences in cannabis cultivation and how these vary in different legal contexts. The experiences of men and women cannabis growers varied across policy contexts. One of the impacts of legalization may be the increased involvement of women in cannabis production. Our study suggests a lessening of the gendered nature of cannabis cul…
Competing Through Service
Customer services has long been a central pillar of drug sellers’ attempts to build and maintain customer loyalty. However, recent years have seen an intensification of this process. This article draws upon the concept of ‘entrepreneurial bricolage’ to elucidate customer service provisions as a marketing strategy in localized retail drug markets characterized by high degrees of disorganization and diversity. Drawing upon interviews with 28 custom…
“Most Officers are More or Less Colorblind”
Several studies worldwide have demonstrated that ethnic minorities are more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police. In this paper, we explore how police officers themselves discuss and make sense of ethnic disparities in police stops. Based on interviews with 25 police officers in two police precincts in Denmark the paper illustrates how officers actively reflect on the (un)importance of ethnicity for policing. Findings point…
Hybrid drug dealing
Research exploring online mediated drug dealing has gained momentum in recent years. Much existing research is characterized by a primary focus on the “online” aspects of drug sales facilitated by social media, resulting in a divide between “on”- and “offline” drug dealing. We wish to bridge this gap, by focusing on the hybridity of dealing drugs via social media and by arguing for a more holistic understanding of contemporary drug dealing. This …
What's in Stock? Drug drought anticipation during Covid-19 among people who use drugs and service providers
Although no long-term drug scarcity was seen, the anticipation of a shortage was sufficient to impact on local drug market dynamics. Heterogeneity in PWUDs' experiences of access to drug markets during lockdown can to some degree be explained in terms of their varied embeddedness in social networks. While local markets proved resilient to lockdown measures, PWUD less embedded in social networks were more vulnerable to shifts in drug availability …
Do You Need Someone to Share With?”
Social supply plays a key role in bottom level cannabis markets. In outlining how social supply of cannabis differs from commercial market exchange, existing studies have argued that social supply is typically driven by two cultural logics: reciprocal gift-giving and sharing. Importantly, researchers have depicted sharing as a sub-version of a more generalized pattern of reciprocation and/or described sharing as a type of transfer that is motivat…
Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’
Based on Goldsmith’s (2010, ‘Policing’s New Visibility’, British Journal of Criminology, 50: 914–34) assertion that police work has acquired a ‘new visibility’ with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, recent studies have explored how ‘video activists’ often film the police as means of protecting marginalised ethno-racial communities. However, limited research exists on how non-activist ethno-racial minority young people use cell phone cameras in …
Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas
Recent years have seen trends within police to use different forms of “community policing” strategies that aim to foster closer relationships and trust with citizens, as well as an orientation toward “procedural justice” in law enforcement practices. Based on 25 interviews with police officers in two different police precincts in Denmark, this article explores the policing of ethnic minority youth in so-called “ghetto” areas from the perspectives…
Brune Og Hvide Bude
I de senere år har udbredelsen af 'nye' kommunikationsteknologier forandret måden, hvorpå illegale rusmidler handles og distribueres. Handel med illegale rusmidler foregår i stigende grad på online kryptomarkeder, sociale medier eller ved hjælp af mobiltelefoner. Berry (2018) har derfor konkluderet, at stofmarkeder bedst kan forstås som sociotekniske netværk, da de i stigende grad formes i samspillet mellem sociale og teknologiske processer. På d…
Making up a new drug user from depenalization to repenalisation of drug users in Denmark
Bouncer service work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how new policies and standards to professionalise nightclub bouncing along with customer-oriented service imperatives affect bouncers’ work practices and identities. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork among Danish bouncers and uses the concept of “emotional labour” and related ideas of “interactive service work” to explore how service imperatives pl…
Ring and bring drug services
We show how a social constructivist approach to technology can provide a more detailed and nuanced account of the socio-technical ensemble and the meaning-making processes giving shape to retail level "delivery dealing
Playing the man, not the ball’
In efforts to combat organised crime, police forces have adopted variations on the pulling levers approach to individuals and groups identified with gun crime, drug supply and other serious offences. Once identified, those individuals and their networks are targeted for interventions from criminal justice agencies and their partners. When levers are pulled, criminals find their lives made intolerable by the attentions of multiple agencies. Identi…
Disturbing the ‘spoiled-unspoiled’ binary
In existing recovery studies, binary distinctions between ‘spoiled’ identities defined by drug-related practices and relationships on the one side, and ‘un-spoiled’ drug-free identities on the other, are dominant. Similarly, in contexts of youth drug-treatment, substance-using friends are generally viewed as ‘bad company’, while non-using friends are considered as recovery promoters. This article, however, joins the growing chorus of qualitative …
Voices of the Banned
In Western cities, public authorities are increasingly resorting to the use of patron banning orders as means of reducing alcohol and other drug-related harms in nightlife. While the use of banning orders is often hailed by authorities, due to their presumed deterrent and crime reduction effects, little research exists on how patrons react to being banned. This is a problem, as assessments of whether the policy goals of banning orders are being m…
Drug policing assemblages
The paper argues that a third-party policing perspective combined with assemblage theory is useful for highlighting how the enforcement of national drug policies and nightlife banning systems is shaped by their embeddedness in local 'drug policing assemblages' characterized by inter-agency relation-building, the creative combination of public and private (legal) resources and internal power struggles. It also provides evidence of how drug policin…
Desistance and the micro-narrative construction of reformed masculinities in a Danish rehabilitation centre
Juvenile justice systems and reformatory institutions hold the potential to help young offenders and drug abusers change their behaviours and life-courses. Driven by an ambition to pave new ways to examine the inner workings of reformatory institutions this study explores how young male offenders’ gendered identities are engaged in a Danish reformatory programme. In recent years existing research on the gendered aspects of reformatory interventio…
When you're boxing you don't think so much’
This paper draws upon international research evidence that suggests a relationship between protest masculinity and the manifestation of violent crime among young males, and that criminal desistance may be linked to (inter-) subjective processes such as the reconstruction of masculine identity. The paper considers the potential that pugilism (the art and practice of boxing) may have on enabling young, disadvantaged minority male gang members to fi…
Violent potentials
This article explores the social significance of violence as potentiality and performance among former headhunters. Taking its outset in an ethnographic study of violence and masculinity among the Philippine people known as the Bugkalot, we explore how violence as "performed violent potentiality" plays a critical role in relation to Bugkalot men's construction of hegemonic masculinity and the sustaining of complex egalitarian relations. The Bugka…
Desistance and the micro-narrative construction of reformed masculinities in a Danish rehabilitation centre
Juvenile justice systems and reformatory institutions hold the potential to help young offenders and drug abusers change their behaviours and life-courses. Driven by an ambition to pave new ways to examine the inner workings of reformatory institutions this study explores how young male offenders’ gendered identities are engaged in a Danish reformatory programme. In recent years existing research on the gendered aspects of reformatory interventio…
Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas
Recent years have seen trends within police to use different forms of “community policing” strategies that aim to foster closer relationships and trust with citizens, as well as an orientation toward “procedural justice” in law enforcement practices. Based on 25 interviews with police officers in two different police precincts in Denmark, this article explores the policing of ethnic minority youth in so-called “ghetto” areas from the perspectives…
Playing the man, not the ball’
In efforts to combat organised crime, police forces have adopted variations on the pulling levers approach to individuals and groups identified with gun crime, drug supply and other serious offences. Once identified, those individuals and their networks are targeted for interventions from criminal justice agencies and their partners. When levers are pulled, criminals find their lives made intolerable by the attentions of multiple agencies. Identi…
When you're boxing you don't think so much’
This paper draws upon international research evidence that suggests a relationship between protest masculinity and the manifestation of violent crime among young males, and that criminal desistance may be linked to (inter-) subjective processes such as the reconstruction of masculine identity. The paper considers the potential that pugilism (the art and practice of boxing) may have on enabling young, disadvantaged minority male gang members to fi…
Violent potentials
This article explores the social significance of violence as potentiality and performance among former headhunters. Taking its outset in an ethnographic study of violence and masculinity among the Philippine people known as the Bugkalot, we explore how violence as "performed violent potentiality" plays a critical role in relation to Bugkalot men's construction of hegemonic masculinity and the sustaining of complex egalitarian relations. The Bugka…
Bouncers, Policing and the (In)visibility of Ethnicity in Nightlife Security Governance
This article explores the reproduction of ethnified urban spaces and inequalities in an ostensibly cosmopolitan city. It does so by means of a case study of bouncers’ policing practices in the nightlife of the Danish city, Aarhus. In recent years, a substantial body of research has explored the regulatory practices of bouncers operating in the urban night-time economy. This article contributes to the study of nightlife policing by paying special …
Do You Need Someone to Share With?”
Social supply plays a key role in bottom level cannabis markets. In outlining how social supply of cannabis differs from commercial market exchange, existing studies have argued that social supply is typically driven by two cultural logics: reciprocal gift-giving and sharing. Importantly, researchers have depicted sharing as a sub-version of a more generalized pattern of reciprocation and/or described sharing as a type of transfer that is motivat…
Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’
Based on Goldsmith’s (2010, ‘Policing’s New Visibility’, British Journal of Criminology, 50: 914–34) assertion that police work has acquired a ‘new visibility’ with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, recent studies have explored how ‘video activists’ often film the police as means of protecting marginalised ethno-racial communities. However, limited research exists on how non-activist ethno-racial minority young people use cell phone cameras in …
Bouncers, Policing and the (In)visibility of Ethnicity in Nightlife Security Governance
This article explores the reproduction of ethnified urban spaces and inequalities in an ostensibly cosmopolitan city. It does so by means of a case study of bouncers’ policing practices in the nightlife of the Danish city, Aarhus. In recent years, a substantial body of research has explored the regulatory practices of bouncers operating in the urban night-time economy. This article contributes to the study of nightlife policing by paying special …
Desistance and the micro-narrative construction of reformed masculinities in a Danish rehabilitation centre
Juvenile justice systems and reformatory institutions hold the potential to help young offenders and drug abusers change their behaviours and life-courses. Driven by an ambition to pave new ways to examine the inner workings of reformatory institutions this study explores how young male offenders’ gendered identities are engaged in a Danish reformatory programme. In recent years existing research on the gendered aspects of reformatory interventio…
When you're boxing you don't think so much’
This paper draws upon international research evidence that suggests a relationship between protest masculinity and the manifestation of violent crime among young males, and that criminal desistance may be linked to (inter-) subjective processes such as the reconstruction of masculine identity. The paper considers the potential that pugilism (the art and practice of boxing) may have on enabling young, disadvantaged minority male gang members to fi…
Violent potentials
This article explores the social significance of violence as potentiality and performance among former headhunters. Taking its outset in an ethnographic study of violence and masculinity among the Philippine people known as the Bugkalot, we explore how violence as "performed violent potentiality" plays a critical role in relation to Bugkalot men's construction of hegemonic masculinity and the sustaining of complex egalitarian relations. The Bugka…
Drug policing assemblages
The paper argues that a third-party policing perspective combined with assemblage theory is useful for highlighting how the enforcement of national drug policies and nightlife banning systems is shaped by their embeddedness in local 'drug policing assemblages' characterized by inter-agency relation-building, the creative combination of public and private (legal) resources and internal power struggles. It also provides evidence of how drug policin…
Disturbing the ‘spoiled-unspoiled’ binary
In existing recovery studies, binary distinctions between ‘spoiled’ identities defined by drug-related practices and relationships on the one side, and ‘un-spoiled’ drug-free identities on the other, are dominant. Similarly, in contexts of youth drug-treatment, substance-using friends are generally viewed as ‘bad company’, while non-using friends are considered as recovery promoters. This article, however, joins the growing chorus of qualitative …
Voices of the Banned
In Western cities, public authorities are increasingly resorting to the use of patron banning orders as means of reducing alcohol and other drug-related harms in nightlife. While the use of banning orders is often hailed by authorities, due to their presumed deterrent and crime reduction effects, little research exists on how patrons react to being banned. This is a problem, as assessments of whether the policy goals of banning orders are being m…
Bouncer service work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how new policies and standards to professionalise nightclub bouncing along with customer-oriented service imperatives affect bouncers’ work practices and identities. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork among Danish bouncers and uses the concept of “emotional labour” and related ideas of “interactive service work” to explore how service imperatives pl…
Ring and bring drug services
We show how a social constructivist approach to technology can provide a more detailed and nuanced account of the socio-technical ensemble and the meaning-making processes giving shape to retail level "delivery dealing
Playing the man, not the ball’
In efforts to combat organised crime, police forces have adopted variations on the pulling levers approach to individuals and groups identified with gun crime, drug supply and other serious offences. Once identified, those individuals and their networks are targeted for interventions from criminal justice agencies and their partners. When levers are pulled, criminals find their lives made intolerable by the attentions of multiple agencies. Identi…
Making up a new drug user from depenalization to repenalisation of drug users in Denmark
Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas
Recent years have seen trends within police to use different forms of “community policing” strategies that aim to foster closer relationships and trust with citizens, as well as an orientation toward “procedural justice” in law enforcement practices. Based on 25 interviews with police officers in two different police precincts in Denmark, this article explores the policing of ethnic minority youth in so-called “ghetto” areas from the perspectives…
Brune Og Hvide Bude
I de senere år har udbredelsen af 'nye' kommunikationsteknologier forandret måden, hvorpå illegale rusmidler handles og distribueres. Handel med illegale rusmidler foregår i stigende grad på online kryptomarkeder, sociale medier eller ved hjælp af mobiltelefoner. Berry (2018) har derfor konkluderet, at stofmarkeder bedst kan forstås som sociotekniske netværk, da de i stigende grad formes i samspillet mellem sociale og teknologiske processer. På d…
What's in Stock? Drug drought anticipation during Covid-19 among people who use drugs and service providers
Although no long-term drug scarcity was seen, the anticipation of a shortage was sufficient to impact on local drug market dynamics. Heterogeneity in PWUDs' experiences of access to drug markets during lockdown can to some degree be explained in terms of their varied embeddedness in social networks. While local markets proved resilient to lockdown measures, PWUD less embedded in social networks were more vulnerable to shifts in drug availability …
Do You Need Someone to Share With?”
Social supply plays a key role in bottom level cannabis markets. In outlining how social supply of cannabis differs from commercial market exchange, existing studies have argued that social supply is typically driven by two cultural logics: reciprocal gift-giving and sharing. Importantly, researchers have depicted sharing as a sub-version of a more generalized pattern of reciprocation and/or described sharing as a type of transfer that is motivat…
Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’
Based on Goldsmith’s (2010, ‘Policing’s New Visibility’, British Journal of Criminology, 50: 914–34) assertion that police work has acquired a ‘new visibility’ with the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, recent studies have explored how ‘video activists’ often film the police as means of protecting marginalised ethno-racial communities. However, limited research exists on how non-activist ethno-racial minority young people use cell phone cameras in …
“Most Officers are More or Less Colorblind”
Several studies worldwide have demonstrated that ethnic minorities are more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police. In this paper, we explore how police officers themselves discuss and make sense of ethnic disparities in police stops. Based on interviews with 25 police officers in two police precincts in Denmark the paper illustrates how officers actively reflect on the (un)importance of ethnicity for policing. Findings point…
Hybrid drug dealing
Research exploring online mediated drug dealing has gained momentum in recent years. Much existing research is characterized by a primary focus on the “online” aspects of drug sales facilitated by social media, resulting in a divide between “on”- and “offline” drug dealing. We wish to bridge this gap, by focusing on the hybridity of dealing drugs via social media and by arguing for a more holistic understanding of contemporary drug dealing. This …
Managing competition in hybrid drug markets
Background Social media platforms have come to play a key role in facilitating retail-level drug sales. While much existing research has focused on how digital technologies shape seller-customer relations, this article draws on a postphenomenological approach to explore how the affordances of digital technologies mediate and re-organize drug dealers’ interactions with competing dealers.Methods This article is based on in-depth digitally facilitat…
Global patterns in small-scale cannabis growers’ distribution practices
We discuss the implications of the findings on the structural process of import-substitution in low-end cannabis markets, including a growing normalization of cannabis supply
Conflict and social control among cannabis growers
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cannabis cultivation and use in 18 countries
This study is the first to document an increase in cannabis cultivation activity following COVID restrictions. Increased home cultivation was not only driven by higher use as a result of home isolation, but also by disruptions of wider illegal cannabis supply. Limitations of this study include the non-representativeness of the sample as well as differences in approaches and duration of restrictions in different countries
Global cannabis cultivation as a gendered activity
The findings presented here come from the first multi-national study to provide a descriptive analysis of gendered differences in cannabis cultivation and how these vary in different legal contexts. The experiences of men and women cannabis growers varied across policy contexts. One of the impacts of legalization may be the increased involvement of women in cannabis production. Our study suggests a lessening of the gendered nature of cannabis cul…
Competing Through Service
Customer services has long been a central pillar of drug sellers’ attempts to build and maintain customer loyalty. However, recent years have seen an intensification of this process. This article draws upon the concept of ‘entrepreneurial bricolage’ to elucidate customer service provisions as a marketing strategy in localized retail drug markets characterized by high degrees of disorganization and diversity. Drawing upon interviews with 28 custom…
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets
In the UK, the recent ‘turn to vulnerability’ in safeguarding and the criminal justice system has meant an increasing recognition that many children and vulnerable adults committing crimes, such as drug dealing, are in fact victims of criminal exploitation involving manipulation and coercion. This recognition is fairly recent, and the visibility of exploited children and adults is impacting how they are dealt with and safeguarded. In other parts …
Sociology (13 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Criminology (8 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (5 obras) · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (5 obras)