Katja Franko

Books

(2023) Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism. Profiting from Pablo

(2020) The Crimmigrant Other. Migration and Penal Power. (Routledge)

(2019) Globalization and Crime, 3rd edition (SAGE)

(2005) Aas, Katja Franko. Sentencing in the Age of Information: From Faust to Macintosh. GlassHouse Press, Cavendish Publishing

Edited books

(2024) Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja; Lee, Maggy and Mehta, Rimple (eds.) Handbook on Border Criminology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

(2013) Aas, Katja Franko & Bosworth, Mary. The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion. Oxford University Press.

(2013) Johansen, Nicolay B.; Ugelvik, Thomas & Aas, Katja Franko. Krimmigrasjon? Den nye kontrollen av de fremmede. Universitetsforlaget.

(2011) Bailliet, Cecilia Marcela & Aas, Katja Franko (2011). Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents. Routledge.

(2009) Aas, Katja Franko; Gundhus, Helene Oppen & Lomell, Heidi Mork. Technologies of InSecurity. The Surveillance of Everyday Life. Routledge.

Articles

(2025) Franko, Katja. Criminal Justice in the Age of Crimmigration. Annual Review of Criminology. Vol. 9: 297-316.

(2025) Franko, Katja and Lomell, Heidi Mork. Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice. Introduction to the special issue. Theoretical Criminology. Vol. 29 (3): 257-267.

(2025) Franko, Katja and Lomell, Heidi Mork. Outsourcing the brains. The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice. Theoretical Criminology. Vol. 29 (3): 305-324.

(2023) Franko, Katja. On the relevance of citizenship in criminal law: Implications for proportionality, equality, and justice. Bergen Journal of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice (BJCLCJ). ISSN 1894-4183. 11(2), s. 1–26.

(2023) Damsa, Dorina & Franko, Katja. ‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis. Sociology. Vol. 57(1).

(2022) Franko, Katja & Rodriguez Goyes, David. Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood. Social and Legal Studies. 32(1), p. 75–95.

 (2022) Franko, Katja. 'See no evil': towards an analytics of Europe's legal borderlands. European Law Open. 1(1), p. 131–134.

(2021) Franko, Katja. Lives that Matter: Criminology and Global Security Inequality. International Criminology.

(2021) Franko, Katja. The two-sided spectacle at the border: Frontex, NGOs and the theatres of sovereignty. Theoretical Criminology.

(2021) Franko, Katja & Rodriguez Goyes, David. Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society. British Journal of Criminology vol. 62(3), p. 533–550.

(2021) Haddeland, H. & Franko, Katja. Between legality and legitimacy: The courtroom as a site of resistance in the criminalization of migration. Punishment & Society.

(2018) Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja & Pickering, Sharon. Punishment, globalization and migration control: 'Get them the hell out of here'. Punishment & Society.

Book chapters

(2017). Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society, In Allison Liebling; Shadd Maruna & Lesley McAra (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology.  Oxford University Press.

Opinion pieces

Europamester i utvisning

Det er på tide å ta inn over oss at de flyktningene som dør i Middelhavet, samtidig dør ved Norges yttergrense

Hvor kriminelle er asylsøkerne?

Portforbud er fremmed for vaar rettstradisjon

Et skoleeksempel på nasjonalisme

De nye, uverdige trengende

• Franko, Katja (2025). Categorization and sorting. In Kaufmann, Mareile & Lomell, Heidi Mork (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783111061931. p. 133–139. doi: 10.1515/9783111062037-016. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This contribution examines the criminological and social relevance of categorization and social sorting, its historic roots, present practices, and implications for the future. The chapter examines the transformation of social sorting from being the corner stone of statecraft to becoming a central feature of contemporary capitalism. These developments have profound implications for criminological understanding of surveillance, social control, and crime control, which are increasingly not only digitalized but also privatized and commercialized.

• Franko, Katja & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2025). Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 29(3), p. 257–267. doi: 10.1177/13624806251348927. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Growing salience of private knowledge infrastructures and providers poses profound challenges to critical social thought, and to criminology more specifically. Yet we know little about privatized knowledge production, private knowledge providers and their impact on criminal justice and crime policy more generally. These are the questions that animate this collection of articles. We examine the encoding and inclusion of commercial and private knowledge regimes into state criminal justice practices. We ask: What happens to matters of public interest when their knowledge foundations are shaped by private actors? How is privatization and commercialization affecting the production and understanding of knowledge and expertise within criminal justice, as well as the nature and quality of decision-making, particularly its impartiality, transparency and public nature?

• Franko, Katja & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2025). Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 29(3), p. 305–324. doi: 10.1177/13624806251341280. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The consulting industry enjoys an increasingly close relationship with the state, including criminal justice institutions. However, this development, previously described as ‘consultocracy’, is empirically unexamined within criminal justice scholarship. Drawing on document analysis of calls for tenders and interviews with consultants working within the criminal justice field in Norway, the article examines what kind of knowledge and expertise is provided by consultants, and how they obtain and exercise their epistemic power. In an increasingly cost-conscious public sector, which is acutely aware of the urgency of digital transformations, the consultancy industry exerts a growing influence on the organizational infrastructure of criminal justice, its evidence base and modes of knowledge production. Consultants are active agents in the proliferation of ideas that are re-shaping how criminal justice agencies understand the social problems they deal with, and the responses to them, as well their role and function in society.

• Franko, Katja (2024). Criminology, Humanitarianism, and the Right to Life at the Border. In Weber, Leanne & Marmo, Marinella (Ed.), A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031462887. p. 65–79. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46289-4_5. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2024). Hierarchies of citizenship: borders, global inequality and the injustice of membership. In Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja; Lee, Maggy & Mehta, Rimple (Ed.), Handbook on Border Criminology. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781035307975. p. 11–24. doi: 10.4337/9781035307982.00008. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2023). On the relevance of citizenship in criminal law: Implications for proportionality, equality, and justice. Bergen Journal of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice (BJCLCJ). 11(2), p. 1–26. doi: 10.15845/bjclcj.v11i2.4096. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article addresses the relevance of citizenship in criminal law and criminal justice and its consequences in terms of producing disparate rationalities, outcomes and systems of rights. Although seldom addressed in scholarly writing and textbooks, offenders’ formal membership status has profound consequences for the state’s sanctioning practices. The article first broadly outlines the developments that have in recent years made issues of membership more relevant to criminal justice practice. By examining a recent judgement by the Supreme Court of Norway, and drawing on the ECtHR jurisprudence, the article then proceeds to discuss the legal and normative implications of membership status for criminal law and the unequal criminal justice outcomes. It concludes that due to its silence on, and lack of awareness of, the relevance of citizenship, criminal law runs an inherent risk of inequality and disproportional treatment that is built into its very structure. Although considered normal and legitimate in current legal doctrine and everyday practice, this approach raises a question about the law’s ability to adapt to social change and to maintain its commitment to equality as a normative ideal.
 How does who you are matter for how you are punished and what kind of sanctions are imposed as a consequence of your infractions of criminal law? Normative theories of criminal law have a long-standing concern with how offenders’ personal and social circumstances should inform sentencing and proper aims of punishment. The perennial balancing act between adjusting punishments, on the one hand, to individual characteristics of offenders and, on the other hand, to the objectives of sentencing consistency, is further compounded by the growing awareness of the need to combat prejudices in terms of racial and socio-economic background. However, who you are matters in criminal law not only in terms of actual personal and socio-economic differences among offenders but, importantly, it matters in a formal sense. Although seldom addressed in scholarly writing and textbooks, offenders’ formal membership status (i.e. whether he or she is a citizen or an alien) has profound consequences for the state’s sanctioning practices. This article addresses the relevance of citizenship and membership status in criminal law and criminal justice and its consequences in terms of producing disparate rationalities, outcomes and systems of rights. It draws on the growing body of scholarship about the blurring boundaries between criminal law and civil law, and the transformation of criminal justice due to growing salience of immigration control objectives. The article aims to contribute to a conversation on the relevance of membership in criminal law, which is particularly ripe in Norway due to a number of social developments that have been taking place in the country in the past decade and more.
 The article first broadly outlines the theoretical intersections of criminal justice and citizenship and then proceeds to present several developments that have, in recent years, made issues of membership more relevant to criminal justice practice. By examining a recent judgement by the Supreme Court of Norway, and drawing on the ECtHR jurisprudence, the article discusses the legal and normative implications of membership status for criminal law and for the unequal criminal justice outcomes. It argues that questions of membership present a normative problem for criminal law and have profound implications for principles of equality and proportionality that have, so far, not been properly addressed. Due to the silence on, and lack of awareness of, the relevance of citizenship, criminal law runs an inherent risk of inequality and disproportional treatment that is built into its very structure. Although considered normal and legitimate in current legal doctrine and everyday practices, this approach raises a question about the law’s ability to adapt to social change and to maintain its commitment to equality as a normative ideal.

• Franko, Katja & Goyes, David Rodriguez (2022). Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood. Social and Legal Studies. ISSN 0964-6639. 32(1), p. 75–95. doi: 10.1177/09646639221091226. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Issues related to victimhood are central to transitional justice and international criminal justice. However, processes of transitional justice do not usually include victims of drug-related violence, despite the fact that in several Latin American countries deaths caused by cartel violence easily meet criteria of civil war. This article's central argument is that distinctions between victims of war and victims of what is often termed conventional crime are of great importance to notions of legitimate victimhood in transitional contexts. Taking Colombia's Victims’ Law (2011) as a case study, we argue that the binary distinction between war and crime fails to address the needs of victims of mass drug violence and creates a hierarchy among victims. This has important symbolic, legal and material implications for those who find themselves in the less favoured category. Victims of drug related violence struggle to access justice and to make their voices heard in public discourses about violence. We argue that the current understanding of mass drug violence as ‘conventional crime’ represents a Northern perspective on violence, which can be counter-productive when used uncritically in Southern contexts.

• Damsa, Dorina & Franko, Katja (2022). ‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. 57(1). doi: 10.1177/00380385221096043. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Intersectionality scholarship has yet to systematically recognize the importance of citizenship status for the mutual shaping of inequalities. In this article, we bring attention to the combined structuring force of criminal law and citizenship status (and the related concepts of ‘illegal’ or ‘irregular’ status) in intersecting with other categories of social disadvantage, such as those created by racialization, class, gender and ethnicity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with women in prisons for ‘foreign nationals’ and health clinics for ‘undocumented’ migrants in Norway and Denmark, this article shows how citizenship status has a central role in the co-constitution of gendered, classed and racialized social disadvantages.

• Franko, Katja (2022). 'See no evil': towards an analytics of Europe's legal borderlands. European Law Open. 1(1), p. 131–134. doi: 10.1017/elo.2021.9. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Goyes, David Rodriguez (2021). Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 62(3), p. 533–550. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azab078. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract Collective memory of atrocities is a fractured and disputed terrain. In this article, we empirically explore the complex process of translating violent events that took place in Medellín during the 1980s and 1990s into collective memory. It examines the conflict between Medellín inhabitants’ (in)ability to overcome trauma and shape their collective identity and the power of global media representations, exemplified by popular TV shows such as Narcos, to impose their narratives and consequently shape the present nature of the city. Drawing on original empirical material, consisting of ethnographic observations and interviews with residents of Medellín, including victims of narco-violence, this paper examines processes of memory commodification and its consequences on the global recognition of victimhood.

• Franko, Katja (2021). Lives that Matter: Criminology and Global Security Inequality. International Criminology. ISSN 2662-9976. 1(1), p. 20–27. doi: 10.1007/s43576-021-00007-0. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract Ideals of universalism and the idea that all lives are equally valuable, and should be equally worthy of protection, form a standard narrative for human rights regimes and international legal instruments. However, realities on the ground are marked by social arrangements where lives are de facto unequally protected. The article addresses one of the central criminological concepts and perspectives—that of inequality—and examines possible avenues for theorizing the dynamics of global security inequality. How well equipped is criminology to address the underlying processes of social stratification which shape decisions about whose life gets to be protected, and by what means? What might a global understanding of inequality look like? To what extent do existing concepts for analyzing inequality enhance or impede our understanding of global social cleavages?

• Franko, Katja (2021). The two-sided spectacle at the border: Frontex, NGOs and the theatres of sovereignty. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 25(3), p. 379–399. doi: 10.1177/13624806211007858. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Southern Mediterranean border has in the past decade become one of the most deeply contested political spaces in Europe and has been described as a site of the border spectacle. Drawing on textual and visual analysis of Twitter messages by two of the most prominent actors in the field, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, and the humanitarian and medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières, the article examines the split nature of the Mediterranean border which is, among others, visible in radically different narratives about migrants’ journeys, border deaths and living conditions. The findings challenge previous scholarship about convergence of humanitarianism and policing. The two actors are waging a fierce media battle for moral authority, where they use widely diverging strategies of claiming authority, each of which carries a particular set of ethical dilemmas.

• Haddeland, Hanna Buer & Franko, Katja (2021). Between legality and legitimacy: The courtroom as a site of resistance in the criminalization of migration. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. doi: 10.1177/1462474521996815. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The criminalization of migration-related acts, rather than simply strengthening state authority, also represents a risk of exposing legal legitimacy deficits. By drawing on juridical analysis of court judgements, legal documents, and case law, together with ethnographic observation in court and analysis of media coverage, the article argues for acknowledging the extra-legal aspects of criminalization. By employing the concept of legal consciousness, we bring attention to how bordering processes are challenged from below by using the courtroom to expose potential legitimacy deficits concerning crimmigration enforcement. The article shows how the courtroom is not merely a place for convictions but also a site for resistance and social mobilization: a platform that may give marginalized groups voice and visibility, invoking a complex picture of state power, involving the ability to use force as well as reluctance and ambivalence connected to the questionable legitimacy of criminalization strategies.

• Franko, Katja; Woude, Maartje Van der & Barker, Vanessa (2019). Beacons of tolerance dimmed? Migration, criminalization, and inhospitality in the welfare states. In Wyller, Trygve & Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Ed.), Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration. Religion and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 9780367222109. p. 55–75. doi: 10.4324/9780429273773-4. Full text in Research Archive
• Thorleifsson, Cathrine; Franko, Katja & Wyller, Trygve (2018). Nei, Matlary, nasjonalstaten er ikke alfa og omega. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
• Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja & Pickering, Sharon (2018). Punishment, globalization and migration control: 'Get them the hell out of here'. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. 20(1), p. 34–53. doi: 10.1177/1462474517738984. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2017). Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society. In Liebling, Allison; Maruna, Shadd & McAra, Lesley (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198719441. p. 353–372. doi: 10.1093/he/9780198719441.003.0016. Full text in Research Archive
• Pickering, Sharon; Bosworth, Mary & Franko, Katja (2017). The Criminology of Mobility. In Carlen, Pat & Franca, Leandro (Ed.), Alternative criminologies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138067424. p. 150–164. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2016). Preface. In Robert, Dominique & Dufresne, Martin (Ed.), Actor-Network Theory and Crime Studies. Explorations in Science and Technology. Ashgate. ISSN 9781472417107. p. ix–xiii. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2016). (Un-)sichere Identitäten: Biometrie, Grenzen und Staatsbürgerschaft. In Heinemann, Torsten & Weiss, Martin G. (Ed.), An der Grenze. Die biotechnologische Überwachung von Migration.. Campus Verlag. ISSN 9783593501413. p. 131–156. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2016). Global policing and mobility: Identity, territory, sovereignty. In Bradford, Ben; Jauregui, Beatrice; Loader, Ian & Steinberg, Jonny (Ed.), Sage handbook of global policing. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781473906426. p. 497–514. doi: 10.4135/9781473957923.n29. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Mohn, Sigmund Book (2015). Utvisning som straff? Om grensesnittet mellom strafferett og utlendingskontroll. Tidsskrift for strafferett. ISSN 1502-685X. p. 153–176. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2015). Policing humanitarian borderlands: Frontex, human rights and the precariousness of life. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 55(1), p. 1–18. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu086. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2015). A Divided fraternity: Transnational police cultures, proximity, and loyalty. European Journal of Policing Studies. ISSN 2034-760X. 3(2), p. 162–183. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Based on extensive interviews with officers participating in the operations of the EU external border control agency, Frontex, the article examines the nature of police culture and, in particular, the role of social and cultural proximity in transnational policing and its implications for our understanding of police loyalty and accountability. Precisely the possibility of proximity, of being “where the action is” and developing personal bonds and networks, is what makes this type of work attractive to the officers and is an important motivational driving force behind the agency’s dynamic expansion. The findings therefore support the orthodox accounts of police culture, which stress the importance of physical action, excitement and informal connections, rather than legal regulatory frameworks and formal and technological connections. However, by examining Frontex through the social dimensions of proximity, the article also brings attention to important internal divisions, cultural differences and divided loyalties within what might at first appear as a unitary culture of transnational policing. This is important for understanding the dynamics of closure, insularity and lack of accountability which has been a defining and problematic feature of transnational policing. The article concludes by discussing the implications of the empirical findings for bringing into light previously unexamined potential for greater openness and for improving the democratic ethos within the field.

• Aas, Katja Franko; Pickering, Sharon & Bosworth, Mary (2014). The Criminology of Mobility. In Pickering, Sharon & Ham, Julie (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration. Routledge. ISSN 9780415823944. p. 382–395. doi: 10.4324/9781315158662-10. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2014). Bordered penality: Precarious membership and abnormal justice. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. 16(5), p. 520–541. doi: 10.1177/1462474514548807. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Analysing a World in Motion: Global Flows Meet 'Criminology of the Other'. In Aas, Katja Franko (Eds.), Globalization and crime. Vol 1-3. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781446257265. p. 59–78. doi: 10.1177/1362480607075852. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Editor's Introduction: Globalization and Crime. In Aas, Katja Franko (Eds.), Globalization and crime. Vol 1-3. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781446257265. p. xv–xlix. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Grenser for straff. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. p. 64–75. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Medlemsskap på prøve. In Johansen, Nicolay B.; Ugelvik, Thomas & Aas, Katja Franko (Ed.), Krimmigrasjon? Den nye kontrollen av de fremmede. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215021324. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko & Bosworth, Mary (2013). Preface. In Aas, Katja Franko & Bosworth, Mary (Ed.), The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199669394. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). The Ordered and the Bordered Society: Migration Control, Citizenship, and the Northern Penal State. In Aas, Katja Franko & Bosworth, Mary (Ed.), The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199669394. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199669394.003.0002. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2012). (In)security-at-a-distance: Rescaling justice, risk and warfare in a transnational age. Global crime. ISSN 1744-0572. 4. doi: 10.1080/17440572.2012.715391. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2012). 'The Earth is one but the world is not': Criminological theory and its geopolitical divisions. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 16(1), p. 5–20. doi: 10.1177/1362480611433433. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2011). A borderless world? Cosmopolitanism, boundaries and frontiers. In Bailliet, Cecilia Marcela & Aas, Katja Franko (Ed.), Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents. Routledge. ISSN 9780415593434. p. 134–150. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2011). Visions of Global Control: Cosmopolitan Aspirations in a World of Friction. In Bosworth, Mary & Hoyle, Carol (Ed.), What is Criminology?. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199571826. p. 406–419. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199571826.003.0028. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2011). Victimhood of the national? Denationalising sovereignty in crime control. In Crawford, Adam (Eds.), International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9780521116442. p. 389–412. doi: 10.1017/cbo9780511974953.015. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2011). 'Crimmigrant' bodies and bona fide travelers: Surveillance, citizenship and global governance. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 15(3), p. 331–346. doi: 10.1177/1362480610396643. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2010). Global Criminology. In McLaughlin, Eugene & Newburn, T. (Ed.), The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781412920384. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko; Gundhus, Helene Oppen & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2009). Introduction: Technologies of (in)security. In Aas, Katja Franko; Gundhus, Helene Oppen & Lomell, Heidi Mork (Ed.), Technologies of InSecurity. The Surveillance of Everyday Life. Routledge. ISSN 9780415464550. p. 1–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2009). Surveillance: Citizens and the State. Surveillance & Society. 6(3), p. 317–321. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2008). Nils Christie. In Hayward, Keith; Maruna, Shadd & Mooney, Jayne (Ed.), Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology. Routledge. ISSN 9780415429115. Full text in Research Archive

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• Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja; Lee, Maggy & Mehta, Rimple (2024). Handbook on Border Criminology. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035307975. 396 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Goyes, David Rodriguez (2023). Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism. Profiting from Pablo. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192874115. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192874115.001.0001. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2020). The Crimmigrant other. Migration and Penal Power. Routledge. ISBN 9781138545977. 237 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2020). Globalization & Crime. Sage Publications. ISBN 9781526445223. 310 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko & Bosworth, Mary (2013). The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199669394. 350 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Johansen, Nicolay B.; Ugelvik, Thomas & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Krimmigrasjon? Den nye kontrollen av de fremmede. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215021324. 295 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Globalization and crime. Vol 1-3. Sage Publications. ISBN 9781446257265. 1304 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Globalization and Crime (Second Edition). Sage Publications. ISBN 9781446201978. 280 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Bailliet, Cecilia Marcela & Aas, Katja Franko (2011). Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents. Routledge. ISBN 9780415593434. 237 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko; Gundhus, Helene Oppen & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2009). Technologies of Insecurity: The Surveillance of Everyday Life. Routledge. ISBN 9780415464550. 296 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko; Gundhus, Helene Oppen & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2009). Technologies of InSecurity. The Surveillance of Everyday Life. Routledge. ISBN 9780415464550. 279 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2007). Globalization and crime. Sage Publications. ISBN 9781412912891. 220 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Lomell, Heidi Mork; Langeland, Camilla Løvschall & Franko, Katja (2026). CRIMKNOW: Digitalisering og privatiserte kunnskapsregimer i kriminalpolitikken. Full text in Research Archive
• Lomell, Heidi Mork; Franko, Katja & Akhoundzadeh, Miriam Revheim (2026). Private numbers, public issues. doi: https:/nsfk.org/2025/11/27/nsfk-research-seminar-2026/. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Statistics have been traditionally seen as the hallmark of state knowledge production. However, in recent years, the production of numbers has been increasingly taken over by private actors, especially in the international domain. By producing global indexes, benchmarks and indicators, NGOs, consulting firms, think tanks and civil society organizations are gaining a central role in the production of statistics and knowledge about various forms of global crime and shaping national policies and the agenda of international organizations. Moreover, most criminal justice agencies are moving their data (i.e. state archives and statistical data) to commercial cloud services. Digital platforms offered by private providers have become an essential component of the state bureaucratic infrastructure, a trend that has been described as “platformization of the state”. This paper examines the trend towards the privatization of numbers production and examines how this may be influencing the organizational logic of the state and crime policy. The paper draws on interviews with those producing state and private statistics, top-level bureaucrats and criminal justice decision-makers as well as other actors who extract value from crime data as well as an analysis of new statistical “products”.

• Franko, Katja & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2025). Kriminalitet som tjeneste: Når sosiale medier blir torpedoen. p. 18–19. doi: https:/e-avis.aftenposten.no/p/aftenposten/2025-11-16/r/10/18-19/611/2037536. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Hvilket ansvar har de som tilbyr en tjeneste som fungerer som en markedsplass for voldsoppdrag? Bør dette ansvaret være mer tydelig definert gjennom lovgivning?

• Franko, Katja; Lomell, Heidi Mork; Ellefsen, Hjørdis Birgitte; Langeland, Camilla Løvschall; Myrvang, Thea & Zinober, Ninni Charlotte Eliassen [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2025). Kriminalpolitiske kunnskapsregimer i endring. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2025). Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2024). Thomas Mathiesen as a public intellectual. Justice, Power and Resistance. ISSN 2398-2764. 7(2), p. 205–213. doi: 10.1332/26352338Y2024D000000017. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Could Thomas Mathiesen be described as a public intellectual? What, after all, is a public intellectual? And does the label still carry any kind of relevance? Today, the meaning of the term public intellectual is far from clear. The notion of a public intellectual has moreover become controversial because of its connotations of academic elitism, and its gendered nature. However, its gradual decline also carries pressing concerns that academics are increasingly withdrawing from the public arena. Reflecting on these developments and ambiguities, the article explores the meaning of the term and uses it as a starting point for the discussion of Thomas Mathiesen’s remarkable life and work.

• Franko, Katja & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2022). Is digital criminology a “private criminology”? Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2022). Digitalization and Private Economies of Knowledge in Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2021). Frontex: Europas første uniformerte politistyrke. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det Europeiske grensekontroll byrået Frontex har de siste årene hatt en markant vekst og utvidet rolle blant annet med etableringen av Den europeiske grense- og kystvakt (EBCG). De beskriver seg selv som «Europas første uniformerte politistyrke». I innlegget presenteres først Frontex sin utvikling, fulgt opp av diskusjon rundt organisasjonens politikultur, særlig hvordan den balanserer kriminalitetsbekjempelse, menneskerettigheter og redning av liv.

• Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja & Pickering, Sharon (2018). Criminal justice research in an era of mass mobility: A brief introduction. In Jahnsen, Synnøve Økland; Powel, Rebecca & Fili, Andriani (Ed.), Criminal justice research in an era of mass mobility. Routledge. ISSN 9781138284128. p. 1–11. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja (2018). In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State. Border Criminologies Blog. Full text in Research Archive
• Thorleifsson, Cathrine; Wyller, Trygve & Franko, Katja (2018). De nye, uverdige trengende. Full text in Research Archive
• Ystehede, Per Jørgen; Fosse, Marit; Mohn, Sigmund Book & Franko, Katja (2016). Fra kontroll av svensker til kontroll av syrere. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det er lett å tenke at politiets kontroll av innvandring er et helt nytt fenomen. Men slik er det altså ikke, ifølge kriminologisk forskning.

• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2016). Politiets arbeid med tvangsreturer. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2016). Straff som utvisning. Full text in Research Archive
• Franko, Katja & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2016). Den risikable profileringen. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2015). Politiarbeid i en global verden. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2015). Kriminalitetskontroll og utlendingskontroll: utfordringer og dilemmaer for norsk politi. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2015). Policing with, against and through humanity: European borders and the precariousness of life. In Storgaard, Anette (Eds.), NSfKs 57. forskerseminar; Hvad er lov - hvad bør blive lov? Kriminalisering og regulering I de nordiske velfærdssamfund. Nordisk Samarbejdsråd for Kriminologi. ISSN 9788276880434. p. 9–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2015). Policing with, against and through humanity: European borders and the precariousness of life. Full text in Research Archive
• Fosse, Marit; Franko, Katja & Mohn, Sigmund Book (2015). Utvisning fra Norge blir brukt som straff. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Utvisning fra Norge blir i stadig økende grad brukt som straff mot kriminelle utlendinger. At politiet og ikke domstolen avgjør utvisningen, gir ulikhet for loven og kan ramme ressurssvake grupper, mener forskere.

• Aas, Katja Franko & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2015). ”Et delt brorskap ”: Transnasjonale politikulturer, nærhet og kontroll. In Granér, Rolf & Kronkvist, Ola (Ed.), The Past, the present and the future of police research: Proceedings from the fifth Nordic Police Research seminar. Polisutbildningen, Linnéuniversitetet. p. 81–104. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko & Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen (2015). Det er på tide å ta inn over oss at de flyktningene som dør i Middelhavet, samtidig dør ved Norges yttergrense. Full text in Research Archive
• Mohn, Sigmund Book & Franko, Katja (2015). Utlendinger blir i økende grad straffet med utvisning. [Journal]. NTB/div.. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Utvisning fra Norge blir i stadig økende grad brukt som straff mot kriminelle utlendinger. At politiet og ikke domstolen avgjør utvisningen, gir ulikhet for loven og kan ramme ressurssvake grupper, mener forskere.

• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2015). Europa teller ikke de tapte liv. Full text in Research Archive
• Johansen, Nicolay B & Franko, Katja (2014). Hurtigsporet ut av landet. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Franko, Katja (2014). Kriminalitet og migrasjon: Norsk politi i verden: kompetanse og utfordringer. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Policing with, against and through humanity: European borders and the precariousness of life. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Norsk politi i verden – eller verden i norsk politi? Kompetanse og utfordringer. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Norsk politi i verden: kompetanse og utfordringer. Full text in Research Archive
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Norsk politi i verden – eller verden i norsk politi? Kompetanse og utfordringer. Full text in Research Archive
• Johansen, Nicolay B.; Ugelvik, Thomas & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Innledning: Globalisering, staten og de fremmede. In Johansen, Nicolay B.; Ugelvik, Thomas & Aas, Katja Franko (Ed.), Krimmigrasjon? Den nye kontrollen av de fremmede. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215021324. p. 11–24. Full text in Research Archive
• Johansen, Nicolay B. & Aas, Katja Franko (2013). Hvor kriminelle er asylsøkere? p. 4–4. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). "Bordered Penality: Abnormal Justice and Precarious Membership". Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2013). “Fitting Punishment: Abnormal Justice and the Precarious Membership in Europe”. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko & Johansen, Nicolay B. (2013). “Hvor kriminelle er asylsøkerne?”. Full text in Research Archive
• Bailliet, Cecilia Marcela & Aas, Katja Franko (2011). Introduction. In Bailliet, Cecilia Marcela & Aas, Katja Franko (Ed.), Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents. Routledge. ISSN 9780415593434. p. 1–7. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2010). Controlling crime, controlling society: Thinking about crime in Europe and America. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. 12(3), p. 374–376. doi: 10.1177/14624745100120030804. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko & Lomell, Heidi Mork (2008). Trygghet som et offentlig gode. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2008). 'Victimhood of the national?: Denationalizing sovereignty in crime control'. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2008). ’Security – at – a distance’: globalization and the shifting boundaries of criminology. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2008). 'The necessary 'floor' of liberty' - a comment. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Katja Franko (2008). ‘Global and local’: theoretical and methodological implications for criminology. Full text in Research Archive
• Lomell, Heidi Mork & Aas, Katja Franko (2007). Kriminalitetskontroll, risiko og teknologi. Full text in Research Archive
• Lomell, Heidi Mork; Aas, Katja Franko & Gundhus, Helene Oppen (2007). Technologies of (in)security. Full text in Research Archive
• Hjort, Maria Astrup; Mikelsen, Anders Bernhard; Franko, Katja; Røkenes, Fredrik Mørk; Lyshaugen, Frode & Aarrestad, Alexander Schmidt (2025). Rapport fra arbeidsgruppe for KI og vurdering. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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