• Becoming a professional digital competent teacher 

      Helleve, Ingrid; Almås, Aslaug Grov; Bjørkelo, Brita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The aim of this Norwegian study is to focus on challenges and possibilities concerning professional digital competence (PDC) for teacher education encountering students in transition between the position as private and ...
    • Fieldwork in police studies: The ethical dilemma in participatory observation with police patrols 

      Aas, Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Police research in Norway is a young research discipline and its methodological approaches have to a small extent been discussed in public. The aim of this article is to discuss one of the most controversial approaches in ...
    • How police leaders learn to lead 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This article examines how Norwegian police leaders learn to lead and what constitutes police practices. Twenty-seven police leaders were shadowed during and interviewed about their daily practices of policing. We found ...
    • Identifying human trafficking in Norway: A register-based study of cases, outcomes and police practices 

      Bjelland, Heidi Fischer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This article examines the identification of human trafficking crimes in Norway. By combining two different sources of police registry data that contain the total set of human trafficking cases reported to the Norwegian ...
    • “It all happened so slowly”: on controlling function creep in forensic DNA databases 

      Dahl, Johanne Yttri; Sætnan, Ann Rudinow (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      Forensic DNA databases are implemented worldwide and used increasingly. Part of this increasing usage is arguably a matter of function creep. Function creep refers to changes in, and especially additions to, the use of a ...
    • Norwegian youth punishment: Opportunity or trap? 

      Holmboe, Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The question of how the criminal justice system should deal with young offenders is an old one. Traditionally, the Norwegian criminal justice system has held that it should treat young offenders less severely than adults. ...
    • Organizational climate and investigation performance in the Norwegian police: A qualitative study 

      Lone, Jon Anders; Garnås, Alexander; Myklebust, Trond; Bjørklund, Roald; Hoff, Thomas; Bjørkli, Cato (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The present study aimed to identify organizational climate dimensions that are salient for police investigation performance and to explicate the mechanisms of the relationship between organizational climate and investigation ...
    • Police leadership development: Intentions and critical success-factors 

      Vanebo, Jan Ole; Bjørkelo, Brita; Aaserud, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      The Norwegian Police Service (NPS) have been heavily criticized after the 22 July 2011 terror attacks at Utøya and in Oslo. One of the evaluation reports stated three shortcomings in the NPS: culture, attitudes ...
    • Silent gratitude : education among second-generation vietnamese in Norway 

      Fekjær, Silje Bringsrud; Leirvik, Mariann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)
      Some minority groups manage well in the Western education system; others do not. In this paper we investigate the role of parental education and family relations in explaining the relatively-high school performance among ...
    • Societal psychology in Norway 

      Phelps, Joshua M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This special issue is comprised of a diverse collection of theoretical and empirical papers from Norway. The choice of societal psychology as a means of organizing these contributions will be discussed ...
    • The Norwegian police and victims of elder abuse in close and familial relationships 

      Aas, Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Over recent decades domestic violence or family violence, violence against women and child abuse has received much attention in the media, in political discourse and in social research. However, abuse of older adults arouses ...