Asta Olesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 251620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asta Olesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asta |
| FAMILY NAME | Olesen |
| SIGNATURE | OLESEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4436-1591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We Owe It to Our Children to Use All Means to Prevent Future Abuse’
In 2020, Denmark introduced its first ‘Sex Offender Law’ to protect children by monitoring convicted offenders and restricting their liberty. The law sparked controversy due to Denmark’s strong tradition of upholding the rule of law. This article explores the political rationale and arguments behind its adoption. Through a content analysis of 161 documents, including political texts and legislative debates, it reveals that the law relies more on …
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase
The pre‐dispute phase, during which justiciable problems may or may not emerge and transform into legal cases, is complex. Based on a meta‐ethnography of 572 articles, all of which apply or refer to Felstiner et al.’s pioneering linear framework of naming, blaming, and claiming, we analysed the many sorting mechanisms that are at play in the pre‐dispute phase. We identified the institutional, political, cultural, and legal environments of various…
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally been acknowledged. In this article, we r…
Naming, blaming, claiming
One of the most cited and influential socio-legal articles is Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat's ‘The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming ...’, published in 1981. Forty years later, the notions and framework of the article are still highly relevant. We convened Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat for an interview about the background to their article, its reception, and how they view the recent refocus on institu…
Released to the “Battlefield” of the Danish Welfare State
Denmark, like the other Scandinavian countries, is built on the “Nordic welfare model” where policies emerge through political dialogue and parallel decision-making (Lappi-Seppälä 2007). However, the “Nordic Welfare Model” is under pressure and the previous expert-driven and research-led strategy especially recognised within penal policy-making has been challenged and changed to a more politically ruled approach over the last decades (Lappi-Seppä…
Taliban I Afghanistan
Asta Olesen: Taliban in Afghanistan In October 1994 the Taliban religious militia emerged as a new force on the Afghan war scene, and during the following three years they have brought more than 2/3 of the country under their control. The Taliban, originating from the religious schools of NWFP of Pakistan, brought relative peace to the areas under their control, but through their victory over the competing mujahedin commanders they also gave birt…
Project Reconstruction Saighanci
Project Reconstruction Saighanci: Et selvhjælpsproject i Nordafghanistan
Naming, blaming, claiming
One of the most cited and influential socio-legal articles is Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat's ‘The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming ...’, published in 1981. Forty years later, the notions and framework of the article are still highly relevant. We convened Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat for an interview about the background to their article, its reception, and how they view the recent refocus on institu…
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally been acknowledged. In this article, we r…
Project Reconstruction Saighanci
Project Reconstruction Saighanci: Et selvhjælpsproject i Nordafghanistan
Taliban I Afghanistan
Asta Olesen: Taliban in Afghanistan In October 1994 the Taliban religious militia emerged as a new force on the Afghan war scene, and during the following three years they have brought more than 2/3 of the country under their control. The Taliban, originating from the religious schools of NWFP of Pakistan, brought relative peace to the areas under their control, but through their victory over the competing mujahedin commanders they also gave birt…
Released to the “Battlefield” of the Danish Welfare State
Denmark, like the other Scandinavian countries, is built on the “Nordic welfare model” where policies emerge through political dialogue and parallel decision-making (Lappi-Seppälä 2007). However, the “Nordic Welfare Model” is under pressure and the previous expert-driven and research-led strategy especially recognised within penal policy-making has been challenged and changed to a more politically ruled approach over the last decades (Lappi-Seppä…
Naming, blaming, claiming
One of the most cited and influential socio-legal articles is Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat's ‘The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming ...’, published in 1981. Forty years later, the notions and framework of the article are still highly relevant. We convened Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat for an interview about the background to their article, its reception, and how they view the recent refocus on institu…
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally been acknowledged. In this article, we r…
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase
The pre‐dispute phase, during which justiciable problems may or may not emerge and transform into legal cases, is complex. Based on a meta‐ethnography of 572 articles, all of which apply or refer to Felstiner et al.’s pioneering linear framework of naming, blaming, and claiming, we analysed the many sorting mechanisms that are at play in the pre‐dispute phase. We identified the institutional, political, cultural, and legal environments of various…
We Owe It to Our Children to Use All Means to Prevent Future Abuse’
In 2020, Denmark introduced its first ‘Sex Offender Law’ to protect children by monitoring convicted offenders and restricting their liberty. The law sparked controversy due to Denmark’s strong tradition of upholding the rule of law. This article explores the political rationale and arguments behind its adoption. Through a content analysis of 161 documents, including political texts and legislative debates, it reveals that the law relies more on …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)