Randi Solhjell

• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen & Solhjell, Randi (2024). Police Stops in Norway: Public Controversies and Minority Status. In de Maillard, Jacques; Verfaillie, Kristof & Rowe, Mike (Ed.), The Politicization of Police Stops in Europe: Public Issues and Police Reform. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031351242. p. 197–219.
• Solhjell, Randi & Klatran, Henning Kaiser (2023). The Politics of Policing Hate: Boundary Work, Social Inequalities, and Legitimacy. Social and Legal Studies. ISSN 0964-6639. doi: 10.1177/09646639231201912.
• Christensen, Tina Wilchen; Lindekilde, Lasse; Sivenbring, Jennie; Bjørgo, Tore; Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs & Solhjell, Randi [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). “Being a Risk” or “Being at Risk”: Factors Shaping Negotiation of Concerns of Radicalization within Multiagency Collaboration in the Nordic Countries. Democracy and Security. ISSN 1741-9166. 20(1), p. 1–24. doi: 10.1080/17419166.2023.2220117.
• Saarikkomäki, Elsa; Solhjell, Randi & Wästerfors, David (2023). Dealing with police stops: how young people with ethnic minority backgrounds narrate their ways of managing over-policing in the Nordic countries. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. ISSN 1043-9463. 33, p. 937–952. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2023.2216838.
• Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf; Lindekilde, Lasse; Fjellman, Anne Marie; Bjørgo, Tore; Solhjell, Randi & Haugstvedt, Håvard [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2023). Trust in interagency collaboration: The role of institutional logics and hybrid professionals. Journal of Professions and Organization. ISSN 2051-8803. 10(1), p. 65–79. doi: 10.1093/jpo/joac022.
• Solhjell, Randi (2023). How acts become hate crime: The police's documenting of criminal cases . International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. ISSN 1756-0616. 72. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2022.100574. Show summary

  This article presents findings from a qualitative study of criminal cases labelled hate crime in Norway. The author asks what kind of knowledge is being produced through the criminal cases and what does it say about policing? The study captures how the cases become registered in the system. This results in the creation of three main categories of events, namely what the author calls post hoc victim reported incident, post hoc police reported incident and in situ incident. The author finds that the practice-oriented document analysis enables an understanding of how some acts are criminalized and turned into ‘hate crimes.’ In addition, the few cases that are exercised in court, have an impact on policing hate crime, as actors and materiality come together in producing a sense of justice, urgency and need of police attention on future, similar events.

• Solhjell, Randi; Sivenbring, Jennie; Kangasniemi, Mari; Kallio, Hanna; Christensen, Tina Wilchen & Haugstvedt, Håvard [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Experiencing trust in multiagency collaboration to prevent violent extremism: A Nordic qualitative study. Journal for Deradicalization. ISSN 2363-9849. p. 164–191. Full text in Research Archive
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Etnisk profilering i norsk politi? Erfaringer fra minoritetsgrupper og politiet. In Døving, Cora Alexa (Eds.), Rasisme : Fenomenet, forskningen, erfaringene. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215063065. p. 410–419.
• Stambøl, Eva Magdalena & Solhjell, Randi (2021). Embodiments and frictions of statehood in transnational criminal justice . Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 25(3), p. 493–510. doi: 10.1177/13624806211009481. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Outside of criminology, dominant conceptions of postcolonial statehood in the Global South as ‘fragile’ or ‘failed’ have long been criticized. In criminology, however, the theoretical outcomes of this critique have been scarce. In this article we therefore ask how ideals and practices of transnational criminal justice are informed by and productive of specific (Global North) conceptions of statehood. Exploring encounters between transnational and local criminal justice in the context of international state-building in Mali and Liberia, we observe frictions in which statehood divergences and global hierarchies become apparent. Through penal aid, we argue, a particular kind of penal statehood is produced wherein the options of how to perform penality are increasingly limited by the embeddedness in global power asymmetries.

• Saarikkomäki, Elsa; Haller, Mie Birk; Solhjell, Randi; Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne; Kolind, Torsten & Hunt, Geoffrey [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. ISSN 1043-9463. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1747462. Show summary

  Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic minorities. However in spite of this research, there still exists a relative lack of knowledge on the day-to-day relations between ethnic minority youth and the police and on the perceptions that ethnic minorities have of procedural justice. Furthermore, comparative and cross-nation research is needed. This study, using data from 121 in-depth interviews, investigates how ethnic minority youth living in Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden describe policing practices. Our findings indicate that descriptions were quite similar in each of the four Nordic countries. While on the one hand, ethnic minority youth felt suspected by the police for no justifiable reason, thereby creating strong feelings of procedural injustice and unfairness, on the other hand, they described encounters, where they felt protected by the police and in general trusted the institution of the police. As such ambiguity has often been neglected, this article highlights the positive perceptions of the police but also argues that targeted police practices can undermine notions of procedural justice, trust in policing and a sense of belonging.

• Solhjell, Randi (2019). «Hele skolen trenger ikke den oppmerksomheten»: Etniske minoriteters opplevelser av politiets skolebesøk på Oslos østkant. Nordisk politiforskning. ISSN 1894-8693. 6(2), p. 156–168. doi: 10.18261/issn.1894-8693-2019-02-06. Show summary

  This article addresses the perceptions and experiences of young ethnic minorities in Oslo and their frequent encounters with the police at the high schools they attend in the eastern and southern suburbs. These police meetings are mainly aimed at preventing crime, such as drugs at schools, and building trust with students and staff. Scholars, however, have debated how frequent controls and policing in more deprived areas inhabited by a large proportion of minorities can have negative effects on procedural justice. In this article, I demonstrate that the youth attending these schools can experience fear, stigma and injustice in the heavy presence of police on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. I argue that these encounters between youth and the police are key to address in order to inform our understanding of mistrust towards the police and challenge strategies of policing.

• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Garbage collection in Bukavu: "The political class does not take care of Garbage here". In De Herdt, Tom & Titeca, Kristof (Ed.), Negotiating public services in the Congo: State society and governance. Zed Books. ISSN 978-1-78699-400-4. p. 168–189.
• Haller, Mie Birk; Solhjell, Randi; Saarikkomäki, Elsa; Kolind, Torsten; Hunt, Geoffrey & Wästerfors, David (2018). Minor harassments: Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police . Criminology & Criminal Justice. ISSN 1748-8958. p. 1–18. doi: 10.1177/1748895818800744.
• Solhjell, Randi; Saarikkomäki, Elsa; Haller, Mie Birk; Wästerfors, David & Kolind, Torsten (2018). “We are Seen as a Threat”: Police Stops of Young Ethnic Minorities in the Nordic Countries. Critical Criminology. ISSN 1205-8629. 27(2), p. 347–361. doi: 10.1007/s10612-018-9408-9. Full text in Research Archive
• Solhjell, Randi (2017). Statsdannelse og vann i Kongo. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 75(1), p. 64–80. doi: 10.23865/ip.v75.500.
• Solhjell, Randi & Rosland, Madel Anna Gunnarshaug (2017). Stabilisation in the Congo: Opportunities and challenges. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development. ISSN 2165-2627. 6(1), p. 1–13. doi: 10.5334/sta.478. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Stabilisation is often interpreted as a matter of military interventions in so-called ‘fragile states’, and/or as technical and development solutions to what we argue are political problems. However, an often poorly understood stabilisation strategy is the revised International Security and Stabilisation Support Strategy for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This strategy engages communities and authorities at local and national levels in dialogues, in order to identify causes of and develop solutions to conflicts. Stabilisation in the DRC, we argue, becomes a matter of targeting deep-rooted political and economic manipulations in the country’s eastern region. This strategy, if fully endorsed, provides the first coherent and thorough approach to stabilisation in the DRC, an exit strategy for the UN mission (MONUSCO) and an opportunity for learning for other UN operations.

• Solhjell, Randi (2015). Kjønnsdiskurser i Internasjonal Sikkerhetspolitikk. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 73(2), p. 211–229.

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• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Dimensions of African Statehood: Everyday Governance and Provision of Public Goods. Routledge. ISBN 9781138615793. 138 p. Show summary

  This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of "state" in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state–society relations, rather than a master narrative of European state formation. Dimensions of African Statehood explores the concept of "statehood" as a set of daily practices that govern and generate effects through the voices of those performing and living the state. The book is based on extensive, firsthand research on the delivery of and access to public goods as expressions of statehood in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A public good, a field long dominated by economic models, can be seen as a power relation rather than a universal, positive good. By unpacking the meaning of "whose public," the book offers an avenue for a dynamic and multilayered understanding of practices that express and shape statehood. The assessment of statehood as presented in this book is an invitation to contribute to the new era of what statehood entails in regions different from the Global North. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of politics, African studies, and governance.

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• Solhjell, Randi (2024). State-making through transnational criminal justice: Invoking global claims of justice through courtrooms, police, and everyday life.
• Solhjell, Randi (2024). Socio-Legal Approaches to Global Governance .
• Solhjell, Randi (2023). Valg i Kongo (Dagsnytt 18). [Radio]. NRK .
• Solhjell, Randi (2023). Enacting the state through transnational criminal justice: A case of exercising hate crime in Norwegian courtrooms .
• Bjørgo, Tore; Solhjell, Randi; Sivenbring, Jennie & Lindekilde, Lasse (2023). The Same, But Different: Policies, Perceptions and Practices of Multiagency PVE work in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Right Now!.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Krisen i Kongo - Studio 2. [Radio]. NRK P2, Studio 2.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Jusspodden. [Radio]. Podcast. Show summary

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• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Lansering av rapporten "Kontroller uten kontroll" v Likestillings- og diskrimineringsombudet .
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Skolebesøk om Hatprat. For videregående.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Politiets arbeid med hatkriminalitet: Dokumentasjon, etterforskning og legitimitet.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Nordic approaches to multiagency collaboration against extremism: Experiencing trust in team work .
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Hatkriminalitet på Piketten . [Internet]. Podcast.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Critical Perspectives on Police, Law & Society: Invitation to an Edited Volume.
• Solhjell, Randi & Himanen, Markus (2022). Police stop & search in Finland and Norway – the ‘Nordic’ way. [Internet]. Podcast.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Unge etniske minoriteter og ulike møter med politiet.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). What do we know about policing hate crime? Research and practice.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Hva vet vi om forskning på politikontroller? .
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Policing hate crime: Through the everyday and the transnational.
• Solhjell, Randi (2022). Et møte mellom rapporter og praksisfeltet - Hva har lanseringen lært oss? «Innsats knyttet til unge som begår gjentatt kriminalitet: Kommentar på rapporter».
• Solhjell, Randi (2021). Police stops in Norway: public controversies and minority status.
• Solhjell, Randi (2021). Research on policing hate crime .
• Solhjell, Randi (2021). Experiencing drugs policing.
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Sollund, Ragnhild & Solhjell, Randi (2021). Minoritetsungdom og kvitteringsordning: Hvordan gjøre noe med politiets diskriminering og skjønnsutøvelse? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
• Solhjell, Randi & Rosland, Madel Anna Gunnarshaug (2020). Reisebrev fra Kongo. In Tveit, Marta (Eds.), Maskespillet i Kongo. Hvordan løslatelse av to leiesoldater ble et nasjonalt anliggende.. Frekk forlag. ISSN 9788293097990. p. 118–131.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Practices in Multiagency Collaboration against Violent Extremism .
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Tracing hate crime cases.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Practices in Multiagency Collaboration against Violent Extremism at the City Level: Nordic Approaches.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Studio 2: rasisme i politiet og minoriteters opplevelse. [Radio]. NRK P2.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Experiencing police stops in Europe: Knowledge, gaps and research opportunities.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Ni år da han ble stoppet av politiet første gang. [TV]. Tv2.
• Bjørkelo, Brita; Hoel, Linda Antoniett; Solhjell, Randi; Leirvik, Mariann Stærkebye; Singh, Manjeet & Thomassen, Gunnar [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2020). Når politiets gode intensjoner oppleves som mistenkeliggjøring. Forskersonen.no.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Stoppet av politiet. [Newspaper]. Dagsavisen.
• Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Hammer, Danel & Solhjell, Randi (2020). Prate eller kontrollere? . Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Dagsnytt 18: Minoritet og politi. [Radio]. Dagsnytt 18.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Belgisk Kongo. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2020). Store norske leksikon AS. ISSN 0000000000000.
• Solhjell, Randi (2020). Fristaten Kongo. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2020). Store norske leksikon AS. ISSN 0000000000000.
• Bjørgo, Tore; Solhjell, Randi & Carlsson, Yngve (2019). Practises in Interagency Collaboration against Violent Extremism at the City Level (Panel on "Nordic Multiagency Approaches to Handling Extremism").
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Dimensions of Statehood: A conceptual approach.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Minoritetsungdommers møte med politi .
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Practises in Interagency Collaboration against Violent Extremism at the City Level .
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Ung og minoritet i Oslo.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Hva er statsvitenskap. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 77(3).
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Exclusion and Control: Policing highschools in Oslo, Norway.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). P2 Nyhetsmorgen, 08:08, Solhjell om politi på skoler. [Radio]. NRK P2.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Intervju om minoritetsungdoms hyppige besøk av politi på videregående skoler i Oslo. [Radio]. NRK Østlandssendingen (P1).
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Building trust or creating exclusion? Policing high schools in Oslo, Norway .
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Strong NGOs and Weak States: Pursuing Gender Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 46(3), p. 579–581. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2019.1639919.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). På hvilken måte bør politiet møte de unge? [Radio]. NRK P2.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Minoritetsungdoms opplevelser av politiet. [Radio]. NRK Østlandssendingen (P1).
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Politiets skolebesøk oppleves som skremmende . Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). Ruspolitikk og minoritetsungdom.
• Solhjell, Randi (2019). "Minoritetsungdom stoppet på gata: Skaper hat mot politiet". [TV]. Tv2.
• Jære, Lisbet & Solhjell, Randi (2019). Minoritetsungdom blir oftere stoppet av politiet. [Internet]. Forskning.no.
• NRK Radio, NRK Radio & Solhjell, Randi (2019). Forholdet mellom politi og ungdom. [Radio]. NRK Østlandssendingen (P1).
• Solhjell, Randi (2018). Mobutu Sese Seko. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018). Store norske leksikon AS.
• Solhjell, Randi (2018). Etnisk minoritetsungdommer og deres erfaringer med politiet. Fokus. p. 11–13.
• Egge, Marit & Solhjell, Randi (2018). Parallellsamfunn: En del av den norske virkeligheten?
• Solhjell, Randi (2018). Understanding hate crime: A conceptual introduction .
• Solhjell, Randi (2018). DR Kongos samtidshistorie. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018). Store norske leksikon AS.
• Solhjell, Randi (2018). Kongo-saken. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018). Store norske leksikon AS.
• Solhjell, Randi (2018). Denis Mukwege. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018). Store norske leksikon AS.
• Egge, Marit; Solhjell, Randi & Jære, Lisbeth (2018). Har vi parallellsamfunn i Norge? [Internet]. forskning.no.
• Solhjell, Randi & Egge, Marit (2018). Western discourses of 'Parallel societies': Immigration, citizenship and social cohesion .
• Solhjell, Randi (2017). Oppfattelse av politiet og politiets arbeid blant minoritetsungdom i Norden.
• Solhjell, Randi (2017). Etnisk minoritetsungdom og deres erfaring med politiet.
• Solhjell, Randi (2017). Policing at high schools: Experiences among ethnic minority youth. In Kinnunen, Aarne (Eds.), NSfK`s 59. Research Seminar: Migration and criminology. Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology. ISSN 978-82-7688-046-5. p. 60–66.
• Solhjell, Randi (2016). Cultural Healing Films, Taghreed Elsanhouri (2014) Khartoum/Sudan: Concordis International. Journal of African Media Studies. ISSN 2040-199X. 8(3).
• Solhjell, Randi (2016). Overgrep i FN land. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Bistandsaktuelt.
• Solhjell, Randi (2016). Kongo for dummies.
• Solhjell, Randi (2016). Kongo: En lite demokratisk republikk. Fellesrådet for Afrika.
• Solhjell, Randi & Rosland, Madel Anna Gunnarshaug (2016). En ny utenriksstrategi? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. p. 10–10. Full text in Research Archive
• Solhjell, Randi (2016). Kongo-Kinshasa landeprofil. Show summary

  Den Demokratiske Republikken Kongo (Kongo-Kinshasa) i det sentrale Afrika er det nest største landet på kontinentet og har intet mindre enn ni naboland: Republikken Kongo, Den sentralafrikanske republikk, Sør-Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia og Angola. Landet har lenge vært preget av enorme flyktningstrømmer og mange væpnede konflikter, og særlig i de nord-østlige og østlige regionene er situasjonen fortsatt alvorlig. I tillegg er de politiske, sosiale og økonomiske forholdene svært vanskelige.

• Solhjell, Randi (2015). Book Review Title: Trauschweizer, Ingo & Steven M. Miner (eds) (2014). “Failed States and Fragile Societies: A new world disorder?” . Nations and Nationalism. ISSN 1354-5078. 21(4). Full text in Research Archive
• Noer, Christian; Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf; Lindekilde, Lasse; Fjellman, Anna Maria; Sivenbring, Jennie & Bjørgo, Tore [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2023). Public Perceptions of CVE Policies and Attitudes Towards Reporting Concerns of Radicalization in the Nordic Countries. Centre for Documentation and Counter Extremism.
• Noer, Christian; Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf; Lindekilde, Lasse; Fjellman, Anna Maria; Bjørgo, Tore & Solhjell, Randi [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2022). Public Perceptions of CVE Policies and Attitudes Towards Reporting Concerns of Radicalization in the Nordic Countries. Danish National Center for Prevention of Extremism.
• Aston, Liz; Brandariz, José; Czerwinska, Dorota; De Kimpe, Sofie; Maillard, Jacques de & Hoffman, Istvan [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2020). Policing the Pandemic. COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology. Show summary

  This paper presents lessons learned from a quick review of the experience of policing the pandemic in European states. Reflecting on this experience, the paper presents lessons and recommendations for the policing of any future second wave or future pandemic.

• Solhjell, Randi; Høy-Petersen, Nina & Haanshuus, Birgitte P. (2020). What is hate crime? Universitetet i Oslo.
• Egge, Marit & Solhjell, Randi (2018). Parallellsamfunn: En del av den norske virkeligheten? Politihøgskolen. ISSN 978-82-7808-134-1. 2018(2).
• Solhjell, Randi & Sayndee, T. Debey (2016). Gender-Based Violence and Access to Justice: Grand Bassa County, Liberia. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). ISSN 1894-650X. Full text in Research Archive
• Solhjell, Randi & Rosland, Madel (2016). New Strategies for Old Conflicts? Lessons in Stabilisation from the Democratic Republic of Congo. NORDEM. Full text in Research Archive
• Solhjell, Randi (2016). Dimensions of statehood: A study of public goods in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of Congo. London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Peter, Mateja; Bøås, Morten; Schia, Niels Nagelhus; Strazzari, Francesco; Karlsrud, John & De Coning, Cedric [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2015). United Nations Peace Operations: Aligning Principles and Practice. NUPI. 2015(2). Full text in Research Archive

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