Johanne Yttri Dahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 355541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanne Yttri Dahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanne Yttri |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahl |
| SIGNATURE | DAHL J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Police University College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8958-3115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Knowledge, technologies and the police
This issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology (NJSTS) is edited by the members of the research project ‘A Matter of Facts: Flows of Knowledge through Digitalized Police Practices’. The project is carried out at the Norwegian Police University College and is funded by the Research Council of Norway (grant 301762). The aim of the project is to explore digital knowledge production in policing. Digitalization plays a major role in curren…
Matter of Facts
Digitalisation and the use of technology are at the core of knowledge production in policing. This paper presents various ways in which perspectives from the diverse field of science and technology studies (STS) can provide new insights into studies of policing. In detail, we suggest ways in which STS, with its broad and open perspectives, can be employed to investigate how different practices involving human–technology interaction within policin…
Riding shotgun - Front-seat research and the socio-material considerations of ethnography on the move
In this article, we explore methodological considerations of using the car as space for ethnographic research on police work. With a socio-material perspective, we are concerned about how the car's particular materiality and mobility shapes social interaction that takes place within it. We argue that this affects the researcher role, and that the researcher's spatial position in the car affects the researcher role further. The position's impact o…
Chameleonizing
This study empirically explores covert physical surveillance conducted by the police and proposes the concept of chameleonizing in covert physical surveillance. Like the chameleon, police officers conducting covert physical surveillance must blend into and mirror their surroundings by adapting their appearance, in terms of both looks and behaviour, to resemble the people in the vicinity to prevent detection. Thus, police officers conducting cover…
Transparens og tilsløring i politiets kunnskapssystemer
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue – Shifts In Modern Policing
This article analyses ambiguity and complexity in proactive policing practices and identifies the paradox that despite the focus on increasing proactivity, police work remains strongly reactive. Drawing on a set of Norwegian case studies of policing in different domains, the article shows how under an overarching objective of ‘combating crime’, the distinctions between non-coercive (mainly proactive) forms of prevention or (mainly reactive) metho…
Questioned parents and the professional gaze. Negotiating the organizational narratives of the at-risk parent
Purpose This study aims at a better understanding of parents’ identity work when their parenting skills are questioned, in an organizational setting. The parents in this study were assessed as at risk of unsatisfactory parental functioning because of problems related to drugs, mental health and/or psychosocial functioning, and they were observed and offered guidance at an extended health centre in Norway. The study explores how individual self-pr…
Hiding in Plain Sight
In this article, we empirically explore directed surveillance as bodily practice—material bodies observing other material bodies. Such low-tech police surveillance practice (Haggerty 2012) relies on a police officer’s body as a tool and medium for information gathering. The theoretical framework used in this article is inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and the body (Merleau-Ponty [1945] 2005). The empirical starting point fo…
Spaningsblikket – en utforskning av politispanereslesning av omgivelsene
I denne artikkelen utforsker jeg politispaneres profesjonsblikk. Ved å gjøre dette utvikler og lanserer jeg begrepet spaningsblikket. I artikkelen drøftes hva spaningsblikket er, hvordan det formes og utvikles. Spaningsblikket handler om hvordan politiet bruker blikket til se, å lese, følge og gi mening til de person(er) de observerer. Spaningsblikket er et fokusert, skjult blikk det kan være krevende å se med. Det kan være både et proaktivt og e…
Eirik Hammersvik
It all happened so slowly” – On controlling function creep in forensic DNA databases
A Norwegian Perspective
Du Gay's The Values of Bureaucracy; Neyland's Privacy, Surveillance and Public Trust; Schweber's Disciplining Statistics; Shulman's From Hire to Liar; Wall's Cybercrime; and the new edition ofDiffie a…
It all happened so slowly” – On controlling function creep in forensic DNA databases
Riding shotgun - Front-seat research and the socio-material considerations of ethnography on the move
In this article, we explore methodological considerations of using the car as space for ethnographic research on police work. With a socio-material perspective, we are concerned about how the car's particular materiality and mobility shapes social interaction that takes place within it. We argue that this affects the researcher role, and that the researcher's spatial position in the car affects the researcher role further. The position's impact o…
Spaningsblikket – en utforskning av politispanereslesning av omgivelsene
I denne artikkelen utforsker jeg politispaneres profesjonsblikk. Ved å gjøre dette utvikler og lanserer jeg begrepet spaningsblikket. I artikkelen drøftes hva spaningsblikket er, hvordan det formes og utvikles. Spaningsblikket handler om hvordan politiet bruker blikket til se, å lese, følge og gi mening til de person(er) de observerer. Spaningsblikket er et fokusert, skjult blikk det kan være krevende å se med. Det kan være både et proaktivt og e…
Hiding in Plain Sight
In this article, we empirically explore directed surveillance as bodily practice—material bodies observing other material bodies. Such low-tech police surveillance practice (Haggerty 2012) relies on a police officer’s body as a tool and medium for information gathering. The theoretical framework used in this article is inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and the body (Merleau-Ponty [1945] 2005). The empirical starting point fo…
Du Gay's The Values of Bureaucracy; Neyland's Privacy, Surveillance and Public Trust; Schweber's Disciplining Statistics; Shulman's From Hire to Liar; Wall's Cybercrime; and the new edition ofDiffie a…
A Norwegian Perspective
It all happened so slowly” – On controlling function creep in forensic DNA databases
Eirik Hammersvik
Spaningsblikket – en utforskning av politispanereslesning av omgivelsene
I denne artikkelen utforsker jeg politispaneres profesjonsblikk. Ved å gjøre dette utvikler og lanserer jeg begrepet spaningsblikket. I artikkelen drøftes hva spaningsblikket er, hvordan det formes og utvikles. Spaningsblikket handler om hvordan politiet bruker blikket til se, å lese, følge og gi mening til de person(er) de observerer. Spaningsblikket er et fokusert, skjult blikk det kan være krevende å se med. Det kan være både et proaktivt og e…
Questioned parents and the professional gaze. Negotiating the organizational narratives of the at-risk parent
Purpose This study aims at a better understanding of parents’ identity work when their parenting skills are questioned, in an organizational setting. The parents in this study were assessed as at risk of unsatisfactory parental functioning because of problems related to drugs, mental health and/or psychosocial functioning, and they were observed and offered guidance at an extended health centre in Norway. The study explores how individual self-pr…
Hiding in Plain Sight
In this article, we empirically explore directed surveillance as bodily practice—material bodies observing other material bodies. Such low-tech police surveillance practice (Haggerty 2012) relies on a police officer’s body as a tool and medium for information gathering. The theoretical framework used in this article is inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and the body (Merleau-Ponty [1945] 2005). The empirical starting point fo…
Chameleonizing
This study empirically explores covert physical surveillance conducted by the police and proposes the concept of chameleonizing in covert physical surveillance. Like the chameleon, police officers conducting covert physical surveillance must blend into and mirror their surroundings by adapting their appearance, in terms of both looks and behaviour, to resemble the people in the vicinity to prevent detection. Thus, police officers conducting cover…
Transparens og tilsløring i politiets kunnskapssystemer
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue – Shifts In Modern Policing
This article analyses ambiguity and complexity in proactive policing practices and identifies the paradox that despite the focus on increasing proactivity, police work remains strongly reactive. Drawing on a set of Norwegian case studies of policing in different domains, the article shows how under an overarching objective of ‘combating crime’, the distinctions between non-coercive (mainly proactive) forms of prevention or (mainly reactive) metho…
Riding shotgun - Front-seat research and the socio-material considerations of ethnography on the move
In this article, we explore methodological considerations of using the car as space for ethnographic research on police work. With a socio-material perspective, we are concerned about how the car's particular materiality and mobility shapes social interaction that takes place within it. We argue that this affects the researcher role, and that the researcher's spatial position in the car affects the researcher role further. The position's impact o…
Knowledge, technologies and the police
This issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology (NJSTS) is edited by the members of the research project ‘A Matter of Facts: Flows of Knowledge through Digitalized Police Practices’. The project is carried out at the Norwegian Police University College and is funded by the Research Council of Norway (grant 301762). The aim of the project is to explore digital knowledge production in policing. Digitalization plays a major role in curren…
Matter of Facts
Digitalisation and the use of technology are at the core of knowledge production in policing. This paper presents various ways in which perspectives from the diverse field of science and technology studies (STS) can provide new insights into studies of policing. In detail, we suggest ways in which STS, with its broad and open perspectives, can be employed to investigate how different practices involving human–technology interaction within policin…
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · European and International Law Studies (3 works)