M L Skilbrei
Biographic Data
| ID | 41964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M L Skilbrei |
| GIVEN NAMES | M L |
| FAMILY NAME | Skilbrei |
| SIGNATURE | SKILBREI M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2540-9681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Kunsten å lage en handlingsplan: Samordning som problem i arbeidet mot vold i nære relasjoner
Å utvikle en helhetlig og samordnet politikk på feltet vold i nære relasjoner har vært fremhevet av norske myndigheter som en målsetting og en utfordring i årevis. Samtidig burde det vært spesielt gode forutsetninger for å oppnå en helhetlig og samordnet politikk på feltet vold i nære relasjoner, fordi det lenge har hersket en sterk tverrpolitisk enighet om å bekjempe denne volden. Likevel slås det gang på gang fast at denne målsettingen ikke bli…
Rich scholar, poor scholar: Inequalities in research capacity, “knowledge” abysses, and the value of unconventional approaches to research
The dominance of modern rationality in knowledge production implies that the distribution of intellectual capital highly depends on the capacity to gather representative data and generate generalizable theses. Furthermore, as research becomes more formalized and dominated by large funding schemes, intellectual capital allocation is increasingly associated with high economic, labor force and institutional power. This phenomenon has consequences at…
The monster and the self: Taking on the monstrosity of sexual violations
The contemporary normative climate regarding sexual violence affects how perpetrators of such violence relate to their harmful acts. In this article, we analyze how men convicted of sex offences are affected by how perpetrators of such offences are often represented as monsters and ask what this tells us about what characterizes the Monster as a figure. While people convicted of sexual offences are likened to monsters in many contexts, there is l…
Maskulinitet som voldens kulturelle stillas: Samfunnets forståelse av menns vold mot menn
Til tross for at menns vold mot menn er utbredt og forårsaker mye skade og frykt, er slik vold i liten grad gjenstand for politisk bekymring eller forskeres oppmerksomhet. I denne artikkelen retter vi søkelyset mot menns vold mot menn og undersøker hvordan den blir behandlet i to sammenhenger, nemlig i retten og i media. Vi analyserer hvordan menns vold mot menn presenteres og tolkes i norske lagmannsretter (2015–2020) og i norske medier (2000–20…
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting
Tensions between societal and legal norms regarding rape shape people’s perceptions of the law and the use of various legal strategies. This article investigates what happens when a claim of rape is discredited, resulting in the claimant, instead, being prosecuted for presenting a false accusation. Based on the analysis of verdicts in cases of false accusations of rape, we identify four pathways into the criminal justice process for such cases an…
Politiet og kroppen: Kroppsundersøkelse i politiets profesjonsutøvelse
Politiet forvalter samfunnets kraftigste virkemidler mot uønskede handlinger, og både effekten av og legitimiteten til disse avhenger av at politiet forvalter denne makten med varsomhet. De siste årene har det vært fremmet sterk kritikk mot politiets metoder og begrunnelser. I denne artikkelen tar vi for oss et av de mest inngripende virkemidlene politiet har, nemlig kroppsundersøkelse. Vi har vendt oss til lovforarbeider, lovgivning og rettsavgj…
Taking on the categories, terms and worldviews of the powerful: The pitfalls of trying to be relevant
Researchers have many incentives to make sure that the work they do is relevant to policymakers and implementers. First, it may secure them funding; second, ‘impact’ is part and parcel of academic evaluations; and third, researchers are often attracted by the prospect of doing work that matters and that contributes towards social justice. Moreover, the mandate and urge to be relevant are central to governments’ capacity to formulate effective and…
Staten, det er oss»: Utfordringer fornorsk samfunnsforskning
Assessing the Power of Prostitution Policies to Shift Markets, Attitudes, and Ideologies
Since the late 1990s, many countries have been debating what prostitution policies to apply, and, particularly in Europe, several have changed the overall approach to the phenomenon and the people involved. Prostitution is more than ever before firmly placed on policy agendas as a topic related to gender equality and globalization. Furthermore, it is seen in context with issues relating to organized crime, health, and gentrification. In both poli…
Vulnerable Here or There? Examining the vulnerability of victims of human trafficking before and after return
This article deals with how return programmes for rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants construct and create vulnerabilities. Few studies have explored the role of assistance provided through such programmes for the sex worker returnees and victims of trafficking who return through them. Even fewer holistically examine a return programme through data elicited in both destination and origin locations, before and after return. That is what…
Individual or Structural Inequality? Access and Barriers in Welfare Services for Women Who Sell Sex
It is often taken for granted that women who sell sex are vulnerable, that welfare services can and should alleviate this vulnerability, and as such, being defined as ‘vulnerable’ can be beneficial and associated with special rights that would otherwise be inaccessible. At the same time, ongoing debates have demonstrated that establishing individuals and groups as vulnerable tends to mask structural factors in inequality and has negative conseque…
International comparative explorations of prostitution policies: Lessons from two European projects
In this contribution we reflect on our experiences of co-designing and coordinating two comparative projects on prostitution policies in Europe by focusing in particular on the epistemological workings underpinning their design and execution. We set out two main goals. The first is to shed light on what the epistemological and methodological issues we encountered reveal about the field of prostitution policy studies, an endeavor which can contrib…
Leaving No Stone Unturned: The Borders and Orders of Transnational Prostitution
Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the intersections between immigration and crime control. In this article, we describe and discuss four regulatory practices whereby Norwegian police combine criminal law and immigration law in different ways vis-à-vis migrant women involved in prostitution. These practices target sex workers with exclusionary measures, even though the sale of sex is legal. These regulatory practices illus…
Prostitution
Prostitution can broadly be defined as the exchange of money for sex and is an economic and social relationship often talked about as encompassing a seller and a purchaser of sex. Sometimes a “third party,” that is, someone that brokers and perhaps also exploits this relationship, is also involved. Prostitution is one of many forms of activities taking place within the sex industry, and often referred to as a form of “sex work.” Social science sc…
Jane Scoular, The Subject of Prostitution: Sex Work, Law and Social Theory
Prostitution Policy in the Nordic Region: Ambiguous Sympathies
There is great interest internationally in the development of prostitution policies in the Nordic countries after Sweden, Norway and Iceland have introduced general bans against buying sex whilst selling sex remains legal. In addition, there is a partial ban against buying sex in Finland. This is a different approach from that of several other European countries, where we have seen a decriminalisation of third-party involvement in prostitution as…
Two Birds with One Stone? Implications of conditional assistance in victim protection and prosecution of traffickers
Protection of victims and prosecution of traffickers are established as core principles in international and national anti-trafficking policies. In this article, we discuss the dilemmas of linking protection of victims (a term that includes social protection) to their cooperation with authorities, using Norway as a case. Our analysis of the Norwegian case is based on interviews with victims of trafficking, social workers, police and prosecutors, …
Debate - From Palermo to the Streets of Oslo: Pros and cons of the trafficking framework
The development of Norwegian anti-trafficking efforts and how they relate to obligations set forth by the United Nations Trafficking Protocol (also known as the ‘Palermo Protocol’) illustrates some of the constraints connected to international policymaking. While national trafficking policies on paper are in alignment with the definitions and priorities in the Protocol, the local and institutional context simultaneously influence how these intern…
Sisters in crime: Representations of gender and class in the media coverage and court proceedings of the triple homicide at Orderud Farm
In 1999, three people were found dead on a farm in the Norwegian countryside. Two pensioners and their middle-aged daughter were victims of a brutal murder that in the coming three years filled the Norwegian news media. Four people, two women and two men, were charged and convicted of the crime. The perpetrators were the son of the murdered pensioners, his wife, her sister and her sister’s boyfriend. As is the case in many countries, women are ra…
Introduction: Prostitution Policies in Europe
The Development of Norwegian Prostitution Policies: A Marriage of Convenience Between Pragmatism and Principles
Is There a Nordic Prostitution Regime
Prostitution policies in the Nordic countries have undergone major changes in the past 15 years. One that has drawn attention, within the Nordic region and internationally, is the criminalization of purchase of sexual acts or services in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Finland has criminalized buying sex from victims of trafficking or persons involved in pimp-organized prostitution. Laws concerning prostitution have to be understood in the light of …
Taking Trafficking to Court
During the past decade, sex trafficking has been high on the political agenda in Norway. Human trafficking cases have been made a priority since a new section on trafficking was introduced into the Norwegian Penal Code in 2003. This article analyzes sex trafficking court cases in Norway and how judges debate the boundaries that need to be drawn between trafficking and others crimes or situations. Sex trafficking requires legal intervention and po…
Reproachable Victims'? Representations and Self-representations of Russian Women Involved in Transnational Prostitution
The article investigates how the concept of victimhood is constructed within debates on transnational prostitution and trafficking, and how representations of victimhood intersect with representations of the person/self, class, ethnicity, gender and nationality. Using research findings based on observation and interviews with women from post-Soviet societies involved in prostitution in Norway, we discuss how the women embrace, resist or rework do…
Defining Trafficking through Empirical Work: Blurred Boundaries and their Consequences
The definition of trafficking in the United Nation (UN) Protocol on Trafficking from 2000 is the starting point of different countries’ definition of trafficking. In Norway, as in other countries, there are still difficulties in identifying victims of trafficking in the day-to-day work of the police, social workers and others. The definitions of and demarcation between human trafficking and human smuggling have grave consequences for legal approa…
Reproachable Victims'? Representations and Self-representations of Russian Women Involved in Transnational Prostitution
The article investigates how the concept of victimhood is constructed within debates on transnational prostitution and trafficking, and how representations of victimhood intersect with representations of the person/self, class, ethnicity, gender and nationality. Using research findings based on observation and interviews with women from post-Soviet societies involved in prostitution in Norway, we discuss how the women embrace, resist or rework do…
Defining Trafficking through Empirical Work: Blurred Boundaries and their Consequences
The definition of trafficking in the United Nation (UN) Protocol on Trafficking from 2000 is the starting point of different countries’ definition of trafficking. In Norway, as in other countries, there are still difficulties in identifying victims of trafficking in the day-to-day work of the police, social workers and others. The definitions of and demarcation between human trafficking and human smuggling have grave consequences for legal approa…
Introduction: Prostitution Policies in Europe
Assessing the Power of Prostitution Policies to Shift Markets, Attitudes, and Ideologies
Since the late 1990s, many countries have been debating what prostitution policies to apply, and, particularly in Europe, several have changed the overall approach to the phenomenon and the people involved. Prostitution is more than ever before firmly placed on policy agendas as a topic related to gender equality and globalization. Furthermore, it is seen in context with issues relating to organized crime, health, and gentrification. In both poli…
The Development of Norwegian Prostitution Policies: A Marriage of Convenience Between Pragmatism and Principles
Leaving No Stone Unturned: The Borders and Orders of Transnational Prostitution
Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the intersections between immigration and crime control. In this article, we describe and discuss four regulatory practices whereby Norwegian police combine criminal law and immigration law in different ways vis-à-vis migrant women involved in prostitution. These practices target sex workers with exclusionary measures, even though the sale of sex is legal. These regulatory practices illus…
Two Birds with One Stone? Implications of conditional assistance in victim protection and prosecution of traffickers
Protection of victims and prosecution of traffickers are established as core principles in international and national anti-trafficking policies. In this article, we discuss the dilemmas of linking protection of victims (a term that includes social protection) to their cooperation with authorities, using Norway as a case. Our analysis of the Norwegian case is based on interviews with victims of trafficking, social workers, police and prosecutors, …
Is There a Nordic Prostitution Regime
Prostitution policies in the Nordic countries have undergone major changes in the past 15 years. One that has drawn attention, within the Nordic region and internationally, is the criminalization of purchase of sexual acts or services in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Finland has criminalized buying sex from victims of trafficking or persons involved in pimp-organized prostitution. Laws concerning prostitution have to be understood in the light of …
Vulnerable Here or There? Examining the vulnerability of victims of human trafficking before and after return
This article deals with how return programmes for rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants construct and create vulnerabilities. Few studies have explored the role of assistance provided through such programmes for the sex worker returnees and victims of trafficking who return through them. Even fewer holistically examine a return programme through data elicited in both destination and origin locations, before and after return. That is what…
The Rise and Fall of the Norwegian Massage Parlours: Changes in the Norwegian Prostitution Setting in the 1990s
This article is an attempt to bring together knowledge about the Norwegian prostitution market, public debates on prostitution and prostitution laws and regulation in order to explore the processes whereby the prostitution setting is constituted. Norway has been the site of changes in the ways female prostitution takes place, changes that are being experienced by the women involved due to a growth in indoor prostitution. These changes seem to hav…
The monster and the self: Taking on the monstrosity of sexual violations
The contemporary normative climate regarding sexual violence affects how perpetrators of such violence relate to their harmful acts. In this article, we analyze how men convicted of sex offences are affected by how perpetrators of such offences are often represented as monsters and ask what this tells us about what characterizes the Monster as a figure. While people convicted of sexual offences are likened to monsters in many contexts, there is l…
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting
Tensions between societal and legal norms regarding rape shape people’s perceptions of the law and the use of various legal strategies. This article investigates what happens when a claim of rape is discredited, resulting in the claimant, instead, being prosecuted for presenting a false accusation. Based on the analysis of verdicts in cases of false accusations of rape, we identify four pathways into the criminal justice process for such cases an…
Individual or Structural Inequality? Access and Barriers in Welfare Services for Women Who Sell Sex
It is often taken for granted that women who sell sex are vulnerable, that welfare services can and should alleviate this vulnerability, and as such, being defined as ‘vulnerable’ can be beneficial and associated with special rights that would otherwise be inaccessible. At the same time, ongoing debates have demonstrated that establishing individuals and groups as vulnerable tends to mask structural factors in inequality and has negative conseque…
International comparative explorations of prostitution policies: Lessons from two European projects
In this contribution we reflect on our experiences of co-designing and coordinating two comparative projects on prostitution policies in Europe by focusing in particular on the epistemological workings underpinning their design and execution. We set out two main goals. The first is to shed light on what the epistemological and methodological issues we encountered reveal about the field of prostitution policy studies, an endeavor which can contrib…
Sisters in crime: Representations of gender and class in the media coverage and court proceedings of the triple homicide at Orderud Farm
In 1999, three people were found dead on a farm in the Norwegian countryside. Two pensioners and their middle-aged daughter were victims of a brutal murder that in the coming three years filled the Norwegian news media. Four people, two women and two men, were charged and convicted of the crime. The perpetrators were the son of the murdered pensioners, his wife, her sister and her sister’s boyfriend. As is the case in many countries, women are ra…
The Rise and Fall of the Norwegian Massage Parlours: Changes in the Norwegian Prostitution Setting in the 1990s
This article is an attempt to bring together knowledge about the Norwegian prostitution market, public debates on prostitution and prostitution laws and regulation in order to explore the processes whereby the prostitution setting is constituted. Norway has been the site of changes in the ways female prostitution takes place, changes that are being experienced by the women involved due to a growth in indoor prostitution. These changes seem to hav…
Bokanmeldelser
Defining Trafficking through Empirical Work: Blurred Boundaries and their Consequences
The definition of trafficking in the United Nation (UN) Protocol on Trafficking from 2000 is the starting point of different countries’ definition of trafficking. In Norway, as in other countries, there are still difficulties in identifying victims of trafficking in the day-to-day work of the police, social workers and others. The definitions of and demarcation between human trafficking and human smuggling have grave consequences for legal approa…
Taking Trafficking to Court
During the past decade, sex trafficking has been high on the political agenda in Norway. Human trafficking cases have been made a priority since a new section on trafficking was introduced into the Norwegian Penal Code in 2003. This article analyzes sex trafficking court cases in Norway and how judges debate the boundaries that need to be drawn between trafficking and others crimes or situations. Sex trafficking requires legal intervention and po…
Reproachable Victims'? Representations and Self-representations of Russian Women Involved in Transnational Prostitution
The article investigates how the concept of victimhood is constructed within debates on transnational prostitution and trafficking, and how representations of victimhood intersect with representations of the person/self, class, ethnicity, gender and nationality. Using research findings based on observation and interviews with women from post-Soviet societies involved in prostitution in Norway, we discuss how the women embrace, resist or rework do…
Is There a Nordic Prostitution Regime
Prostitution policies in the Nordic countries have undergone major changes in the past 15 years. One that has drawn attention, within the Nordic region and internationally, is the criminalization of purchase of sexual acts or services in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Finland has criminalized buying sex from victims of trafficking or persons involved in pimp-organized prostitution. Laws concerning prostitution have to be understood in the light of …
Sisters in crime: Representations of gender and class in the media coverage and court proceedings of the triple homicide at Orderud Farm
In 1999, three people were found dead on a farm in the Norwegian countryside. Two pensioners and their middle-aged daughter were victims of a brutal murder that in the coming three years filled the Norwegian news media. Four people, two women and two men, were charged and convicted of the crime. The perpetrators were the son of the murdered pensioners, his wife, her sister and her sister’s boyfriend. As is the case in many countries, women are ra…
Introduction: Prostitution Policies in Europe
The Development of Norwegian Prostitution Policies: A Marriage of Convenience Between Pragmatism and Principles
Debate - From Palermo to the Streets of Oslo: Pros and cons of the trafficking framework
The development of Norwegian anti-trafficking efforts and how they relate to obligations set forth by the United Nations Trafficking Protocol (also known as the ‘Palermo Protocol’) illustrates some of the constraints connected to international policymaking. While national trafficking policies on paper are in alignment with the definitions and priorities in the Protocol, the local and institutional context simultaneously influence how these intern…
Prostitution Policy in the Nordic Region: Ambiguous Sympathies
There is great interest internationally in the development of prostitution policies in the Nordic countries after Sweden, Norway and Iceland have introduced general bans against buying sex whilst selling sex remains legal. In addition, there is a partial ban against buying sex in Finland. This is a different approach from that of several other European countries, where we have seen a decriminalisation of third-party involvement in prostitution as…
Two Birds with One Stone? Implications of conditional assistance in victim protection and prosecution of traffickers
Protection of victims and prosecution of traffickers are established as core principles in international and national anti-trafficking policies. In this article, we discuss the dilemmas of linking protection of victims (a term that includes social protection) to their cooperation with authorities, using Norway as a case. Our analysis of the Norwegian case is based on interviews with victims of trafficking, social workers, police and prosecutors, …
Prostitution
Prostitution can broadly be defined as the exchange of money for sex and is an economic and social relationship often talked about as encompassing a seller and a purchaser of sex. Sometimes a “third party,” that is, someone that brokers and perhaps also exploits this relationship, is also involved. Prostitution is one of many forms of activities taking place within the sex industry, and often referred to as a form of “sex work.” Social science sc…
Jane Scoular, The Subject of Prostitution: Sex Work, Law and Social Theory
Assessing the Power of Prostitution Policies to Shift Markets, Attitudes, and Ideologies
Since the late 1990s, many countries have been debating what prostitution policies to apply, and, particularly in Europe, several have changed the overall approach to the phenomenon and the people involved. Prostitution is more than ever before firmly placed on policy agendas as a topic related to gender equality and globalization. Furthermore, it is seen in context with issues relating to organized crime, health, and gentrification. In both poli…
Vulnerable Here or There? Examining the vulnerability of victims of human trafficking before and after return
This article deals with how return programmes for rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants construct and create vulnerabilities. Few studies have explored the role of assistance provided through such programmes for the sex worker returnees and victims of trafficking who return through them. Even fewer holistically examine a return programme through data elicited in both destination and origin locations, before and after return. That is what…
Individual or Structural Inequality? Access and Barriers in Welfare Services for Women Who Sell Sex
It is often taken for granted that women who sell sex are vulnerable, that welfare services can and should alleviate this vulnerability, and as such, being defined as ‘vulnerable’ can be beneficial and associated with special rights that would otherwise be inaccessible. At the same time, ongoing debates have demonstrated that establishing individuals and groups as vulnerable tends to mask structural factors in inequality and has negative conseque…
International comparative explorations of prostitution policies: Lessons from two European projects
In this contribution we reflect on our experiences of co-designing and coordinating two comparative projects on prostitution policies in Europe by focusing in particular on the epistemological workings underpinning their design and execution. We set out two main goals. The first is to shed light on what the epistemological and methodological issues we encountered reveal about the field of prostitution policy studies, an endeavor which can contrib…
Leaving No Stone Unturned: The Borders and Orders of Transnational Prostitution
Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the intersections between immigration and crime control. In this article, we describe and discuss four regulatory practices whereby Norwegian police combine criminal law and immigration law in different ways vis-à-vis migrant women involved in prostitution. These practices target sex workers with exclusionary measures, even though the sale of sex is legal. These regulatory practices illus…
Taking on the categories, terms and worldviews of the powerful: The pitfalls of trying to be relevant
Researchers have many incentives to make sure that the work they do is relevant to policymakers and implementers. First, it may secure them funding; second, ‘impact’ is part and parcel of academic evaluations; and third, researchers are often attracted by the prospect of doing work that matters and that contributes towards social justice. Moreover, the mandate and urge to be relevant are central to governments’ capacity to formulate effective and…
Staten, det er oss»: Utfordringer fornorsk samfunnsforskning
Politiet og kroppen: Kroppsundersøkelse i politiets profesjonsutøvelse
Politiet forvalter samfunnets kraftigste virkemidler mot uønskede handlinger, og både effekten av og legitimiteten til disse avhenger av at politiet forvalter denne makten med varsomhet. De siste årene har det vært fremmet sterk kritikk mot politiets metoder og begrunnelser. I denne artikkelen tar vi for oss et av de mest inngripende virkemidlene politiet har, nemlig kroppsundersøkelse. Vi har vendt oss til lovforarbeider, lovgivning og rettsavgj…
Rich scholar, poor scholar: Inequalities in research capacity, “knowledge” abysses, and the value of unconventional approaches to research
The dominance of modern rationality in knowledge production implies that the distribution of intellectual capital highly depends on the capacity to gather representative data and generate generalizable theses. Furthermore, as research becomes more formalized and dominated by large funding schemes, intellectual capital allocation is increasingly associated with high economic, labor force and institutional power. This phenomenon has consequences at…
The monster and the self: Taking on the monstrosity of sexual violations
The contemporary normative climate regarding sexual violence affects how perpetrators of such violence relate to their harmful acts. In this article, we analyze how men convicted of sex offences are affected by how perpetrators of such offences are often represented as monsters and ask what this tells us about what characterizes the Monster as a figure. While people convicted of sexual offences are likened to monsters in many contexts, there is l…
Maskulinitet som voldens kulturelle stillas: Samfunnets forståelse av menns vold mot menn
Til tross for at menns vold mot menn er utbredt og forårsaker mye skade og frykt, er slik vold i liten grad gjenstand for politisk bekymring eller forskeres oppmerksomhet. I denne artikkelen retter vi søkelyset mot menns vold mot menn og undersøker hvordan den blir behandlet i to sammenhenger, nemlig i retten og i media. Vi analyserer hvordan menns vold mot menn presenteres og tolkes i norske lagmannsretter (2015–2020) og i norske medier (2000–20…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Sex work and related issues (19 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Norwegian (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works)