Mette-Louise E Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 185123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mette-Louise E Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mette-Louise E |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nordic Policy Responses to Gang-Related Crime 2009–2025
This article presents a document-based analysis of fifteen years of policy responses to gang-related crime in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Beginning with Denmark’s introduction of the first Nordic anti-gang package in 2009, it traces the historical trajectories, political rationalities, and intervention strategies that have shaped Nordic approaches to gangs and organized crime. The analysis identifies three paradigmatic policy shifts: a post-preve…
The new generation of gang desisters
In recent years, gang exit programmes in Sweden and Denmark have seen an increase in gang desisters with a different profile than those originally targeted by the programmes. This group of gang desisters is predominantly young (between 15 and 30 years old), has been involved in severe violence and crime, and comes from marginalised and ethnically diverse backgrounds. Many face complex psychological problems, such as trauma and PTSD. Based on ethn…
The street crime paradox
This article draws on ethnographic data from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway to examine movement into and out of street crime. Based on participant observations and interviews with individuals involved in drug dealing and other street crimes, we show that some of the very same aspects of street life that attract individuals, most notably community, violence, and drugs, also motivate attempts to leave it. We conceptualize this dynamic as the street cr…
Special Issue Introduction
Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states and families entangle in modern societies [...]
Intimate Belonging—Intimate Becoming
This article examines the ways that Danish gang exit programs engage police officers and gang defectors in a pervasive work on belonging between gangs, kinship networks and the state. In urban Denmark, the majority of gang exit candidates are of ethnic-minority background and form part of the street-gang environment in marginalized migrant neighborhoods. This is an intimate social environment constituted by diasporic kinship networks, where gang …
They want us out
This article explores how a group of Palestinian families perceive and cope with urban regeneration in Denmark's largest public housing project, Gellerupparken. The neighborhood is publicly known as a criminal hotspot, politically defined as a migrant "ghetto", and targeted by state policies as the other in need of change. The aim of the article is to show how urban regeneration is broader than the transformation of physical space and includes th…
They want us out
This article explores how a group of Palestinian families perceive and cope with urban regeneration in Denmark's largest public housing project, Gellerupparken. The neighborhood is publicly known as a criminal hotspot, politically defined as a migrant "ghetto", and targeted by state policies as the other in need of change. The aim of the article is to show how urban regeneration is broader than the transformation of physical space and includes th…
Special Issue Introduction
Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states and families entangle in modern societies [...]
Intimate Belonging—Intimate Becoming
This article examines the ways that Danish gang exit programs engage police officers and gang defectors in a pervasive work on belonging between gangs, kinship networks and the state. In urban Denmark, the majority of gang exit candidates are of ethnic-minority background and form part of the street-gang environment in marginalized migrant neighborhoods. This is an intimate social environment constituted by diasporic kinship networks, where gang …
They want us out
This article explores how a group of Palestinian families perceive and cope with urban regeneration in Denmark's largest public housing project, Gellerupparken. The neighborhood is publicly known as a criminal hotspot, politically defined as a migrant "ghetto", and targeted by state policies as the other in need of change. The aim of the article is to show how urban regeneration is broader than the transformation of physical space and includes th…
Special Issue Introduction
Anthropologists and sociologists have paid increasing attention to how states and families entangle in modern societies [...]
Intimate Belonging—Intimate Becoming
This article examines the ways that Danish gang exit programs engage police officers and gang defectors in a pervasive work on belonging between gangs, kinship networks and the state. In urban Denmark, the majority of gang exit candidates are of ethnic-minority background and form part of the street-gang environment in marginalized migrant neighborhoods. This is an intimate social environment constituted by diasporic kinship networks, where gang …
Nordic Policy Responses to Gang-Related Crime 2009–2025
This article presents a document-based analysis of fifteen years of policy responses to gang-related crime in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Beginning with Denmark’s introduction of the first Nordic anti-gang package in 2009, it traces the historical trajectories, political rationalities, and intervention strategies that have shaped Nordic approaches to gangs and organized crime. The analysis identifies three paradigmatic policy shifts: a post-preve…
The new generation of gang desisters
In recent years, gang exit programmes in Sweden and Denmark have seen an increase in gang desisters with a different profile than those originally targeted by the programmes. This group of gang desisters is predominantly young (between 15 and 30 years old), has been involved in severe violence and crime, and comes from marginalised and ethnically diverse backgrounds. Many face complex psychological problems, such as trauma and PTSD. Based on ethn…
The street crime paradox
This article draws on ethnographic data from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway to examine movement into and out of street crime. Based on participant observations and interviews with individuals involved in drug dealing and other street crimes, we show that some of the very same aspects of street life that attract individuals, most notably community, violence, and drugs, also motivate attempts to leave it. We conceptualize this dynamic as the street cr…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Kinship (2 works)