Norwegian Police Use of Firearms
Critical Decision-Makingin Dynamic and Stressful Situations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6161785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steinar Vee Henriksen (Norwegian Police University College), Bjørn Ivar Kruke (University of Stavanger) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99-120 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2703-7045 • E-ISSN: 2703-7045 |
| Publisher | Scandinavian University Press (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.18261/issn.2703-7045-2020-02-03 |
| OpenAlex | W3110651526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 65 |
This is the first study of police decision-making regarding the use of firearms in the Norwegian context; its purpose is to study how police emergency response officers make decisions on the use of firearms, and to understand the contextual factors underlying these decisions. The data stem from document analysis based on developed categories, and interviews with police officers with experience in using firearms during their service, analysed by the Systematic Text Condensation method. The findings show that when handling armed confrontations, police officers draw upon recognition from previous experience and use a combination of analytical and intuitive decision-making, and that the basis for decisions to fire are situational cues to which the officers respond. Key contextual factors are the stressful conditions and the commonly short distances when shots are fired. A finding in this study is that Norwegian police officers frequently hold their fire until a threatening situation has materialized into an attack, and potentially find themselves in imminent danger as a result
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The Politics of Crisis Management
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Toward a Politics of Disaster
Naturalistic Decision Making
Police Education, Experience, and the Use of Force
Police Officer Characteristics and the Likelihood of Using Deadly Force
Citizen Response to Disasters
Systematic text condensation
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Police officer involved shootings – retrospective study of situational characteristics
A Bird's Eye View of Civilians Killed by Police in 2015
Race, Crime, and the Micro‐Ecology of Deadly Force
Police officers' perceptual distortions during lethal force situations
Who Shot Ya? How Emergency Departments Can Collect Reliable Police Shooting Data
Police Use of Firearms in Norway and Sweden
Shootings by the Police
Aggressive shooting behavior
Preventing the Use of Deadly Force
Conditions for intuitive expertise
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Towards a New Typology of Crises
Taking stock of naturalistic decision making
Techniques to Identify Themes
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |