Louise Victoria Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4142814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Victoria Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN L V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3482-9274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Legislation and institutional practices concerning compensation for victims of rape in Denmark
Incredibly emotional
This paper explores how Danish legal professionals assess the trustworthiness of victims in criminal cases based on emotional expressions. It focuses on the alignment of these expressions with the nature of the crime, the social context, and the victims' social identities, and is based on findings from several ethnographic projects involving extensive observations of crime cases and interviews with criminal justice professionals. The research ana…
The power of professional ideals
This article explores how criminal justice actors interpret and process victims’ emotional expressions. On the basis of a qualitative study on the interactions between legal institutions and victims of violence in Denmark, the article demonstrates how police officers, prosecutors, victims’ counsel and judges each separately understand and evaluate victims’ emotional reactions. These actors interpret victims’ feelings according to their own profes…
Between Remand and Verdict
This article combines the analytical perspectives ‘legal’ and ‘penal’ consciousness in order to analyse how ethnic minority prisoners in remand anticipate their upcoming court trial and how they subsequently make sense of the legal process and their sentence. Based on fieldwork in a Danish remand prison and courts, the study explores how prisoners’ experiences in prison and more broadly in society shape these expectations. Prisoners reflect criti…
Victims’ rights
This paper describes how victims of violence experience their initial meeting with the Danish police and the time that follows. Based on observations of police-victim encounters and interviews with victims, we explore how victims’ rights are brought into play when victims report crimes to the police. Such rights are meant to help victims cope with their situation. However, our study shows that rights are not always adhered to and are at times adm…
Lay Participation in Danish Crime Trials
While there is abundant research on common law jury systems, we know less about lay participation in civil law crime trials, often called ‘mixed courts’ or alternately ‘mixed tribunals'. Here, a professional judge and a number of lay judges deliberate together on the issues of guilt and sentencing. This joint deliberation has naturally led both public opinion and research to focus on power relations such as lay judges’ dependence on the professio…
Using legal language as a non-lawyer
Lay participation in criminal trials has primarily been studied in common law systems, thereby mainly focusing on the separate role of juries. These studies have provided detailed accounts of language use between jurors during deliberation as well as their use of storytelling techniques and common-sense reasoning in decision-making. However, only few studies have focused on the linguistic learning processes that lay judges in other legal systems …
Impressed’ by Feelings-How Judges Perceive Defendants’ Emotional Expressions in Danish Courtrooms
Emotions constitute an integrated part of crime trials, but the evaluation of these emotions is dependent on broader cultural norms rarely addressed by legal practitioners. Previous research on emotions in the judiciary has also tended to underemphasize this cultural dimension of judges’ assessment of defendants’ emotional expressions. This article presents an ethnographic study of Danish judges’ considerations when they encounter defendants in c…
Between standard, silence and exception
This article analyses how the Danish penal system uses pre-sentence reports to constitute defendants as persons in relation to their criminal acts. Based on ethnographic fieldwork within the Danish Probation Service and County Courts, the present study follows the ‘career’ of these documents and shows how meaning is created through the complex interaction between the texts and the legal actors. A critical discourse analysis of the drafting of the…
News from the north
Sympatisk Etnografi Eller Solidarisk Kritik
Traditionally, anthropologists have sympathized with marginalized objects of study - people who do not have the power to speak for themselves. Acting as advocates of subordinate groups has thus seemed much more attractive to anthropologists than studying institutions and powerful informants. Though many recent studies of Western institutions and elite groups have modified this viewpoint, a marked tendency still exists to criticise these informant…
The power of professional ideals
This article explores how criminal justice actors interpret and process victims’ emotional expressions. On the basis of a qualitative study on the interactions between legal institutions and victims of violence in Denmark, the article demonstrates how police officers, prosecutors, victims’ counsel and judges each separately understand and evaluate victims’ emotional reactions. These actors interpret victims’ feelings according to their own profes…
Impressed’ by Feelings-How Judges Perceive Defendants’ Emotional Expressions in Danish Courtrooms
Emotions constitute an integrated part of crime trials, but the evaluation of these emotions is dependent on broader cultural norms rarely addressed by legal practitioners. Previous research on emotions in the judiciary has also tended to underemphasize this cultural dimension of judges’ assessment of defendants’ emotional expressions. This article presents an ethnographic study of Danish judges’ considerations when they encounter defendants in c…
News from the north
Legislation and institutional practices concerning compensation for victims of rape in Denmark
Victims’ rights
This paper describes how victims of violence experience their initial meeting with the Danish police and the time that follows. Based on observations of police-victim encounters and interviews with victims, we explore how victims’ rights are brought into play when victims report crimes to the police. Such rights are meant to help victims cope with their situation. However, our study shows that rights are not always adhered to and are at times adm…
Lay Participation in Danish Crime Trials
While there is abundant research on common law jury systems, we know less about lay participation in civil law crime trials, often called ‘mixed courts’ or alternately ‘mixed tribunals'. Here, a professional judge and a number of lay judges deliberate together on the issues of guilt and sentencing. This joint deliberation has naturally led both public opinion and research to focus on power relations such as lay judges’ dependence on the professio…
Sympatisk Etnografi Eller Solidarisk Kritik
Traditionally, anthropologists have sympathized with marginalized objects of study - people who do not have the power to speak for themselves. Acting as advocates of subordinate groups has thus seemed much more attractive to anthropologists than studying institutions and powerful informants. Though many recent studies of Western institutions and elite groups have modified this viewpoint, a marked tendency still exists to criticise these informant…
News from the north
Between standard, silence and exception
This article analyses how the Danish penal system uses pre-sentence reports to constitute defendants as persons in relation to their criminal acts. Based on ethnographic fieldwork within the Danish Probation Service and County Courts, the present study follows the ‘career’ of these documents and shows how meaning is created through the complex interaction between the texts and the legal actors. A critical discourse analysis of the drafting of the…
Using legal language as a non-lawyer
Lay participation in criminal trials has primarily been studied in common law systems, thereby mainly focusing on the separate role of juries. These studies have provided detailed accounts of language use between jurors during deliberation as well as their use of storytelling techniques and common-sense reasoning in decision-making. However, only few studies have focused on the linguistic learning processes that lay judges in other legal systems …
Impressed’ by Feelings-How Judges Perceive Defendants’ Emotional Expressions in Danish Courtrooms
Emotions constitute an integrated part of crime trials, but the evaluation of these emotions is dependent on broader cultural norms rarely addressed by legal practitioners. Previous research on emotions in the judiciary has also tended to underemphasize this cultural dimension of judges’ assessment of defendants’ emotional expressions. This article presents an ethnographic study of Danish judges’ considerations when they encounter defendants in c…
Lay Participation in Danish Crime Trials
While there is abundant research on common law jury systems, we know less about lay participation in civil law crime trials, often called ‘mixed courts’ or alternately ‘mixed tribunals'. Here, a professional judge and a number of lay judges deliberate together on the issues of guilt and sentencing. This joint deliberation has naturally led both public opinion and research to focus on power relations such as lay judges’ dependence on the professio…
Victims’ rights
This paper describes how victims of violence experience their initial meeting with the Danish police and the time that follows. Based on observations of police-victim encounters and interviews with victims, we explore how victims’ rights are brought into play when victims report crimes to the police. Such rights are meant to help victims cope with their situation. However, our study shows that rights are not always adhered to and are at times adm…
The power of professional ideals
This article explores how criminal justice actors interpret and process victims’ emotional expressions. On the basis of a qualitative study on the interactions between legal institutions and victims of violence in Denmark, the article demonstrates how police officers, prosecutors, victims’ counsel and judges each separately understand and evaluate victims’ emotional reactions. These actors interpret victims’ feelings according to their own profes…
Between Remand and Verdict
This article combines the analytical perspectives ‘legal’ and ‘penal’ consciousness in order to analyse how ethnic minority prisoners in remand anticipate their upcoming court trial and how they subsequently make sense of the legal process and their sentence. Based on fieldwork in a Danish remand prison and courts, the study explores how prisoners’ experiences in prison and more broadly in society shape these expectations. Prisoners reflect criti…
Incredibly emotional
This paper explores how Danish legal professionals assess the trustworthiness of victims in criminal cases based on emotional expressions. It focuses on the alignment of these expressions with the nature of the crime, the social context, and the victims' social identities, and is based on findings from several ethnographic projects involving extensive observations of crime cases and interviews with criminal justice professionals. The research ana…
Legislation and institutional practices concerning compensation for victims of rape in Denmark
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Danish (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law in Society and Culture (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works)