About the project
The project delves into the development of evidence-based practices in the police organization. A key area of focus is studying evidence-based policing as a significant template for global police reform, nationally and internationally. Using an empirical approach, the project will track the development and dispersion of these practices from their origin in the USA, to a global benchmark for modern criminal justice. A key aspect will be to examine the Norwegian police reform, and the impact it has had on the exercise of evidence-based policing today. The project will also specifically examine the influence of potential private actors in the field, with a special focus on the relationship between digitalization and the privatization of knowledge.
Method
The project is qualitatively oriented through document analysis and interviews with key actors in the design and practice of knowledge-based police work. The project also has a quantitative component in the form of a social network analysis.
Objectives
The project aims to explore the emergence of evidence-based policing, identifying key actors in related knowledge production. Collaborating with the «CRIMKNOW» research project, the project seeks to understand knowledge practices' role within police organizations, thereby bridging existing knowledge gaps.
Project period
The project will run for four years starting 1. August 2023.
Financing
The doctoral project is part of the research project "Private knowledge, public issues: Digitalization and private economies of knowledge in criminal justice" (CRIMKNOW), which looks at the relationship between public and private knowledge production.
CRIMKNOW is funded by FRIPRO funds from the Norwegian Research Council. Project number 334953.