Sveinung Sandberg

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Presser, Lois (2025). Criminología narrativa: inspiraciones teóricas y enfoques metodológicos. Revista CENIPEC. ISSN 0798-9202. 36, p. 121–157. doi: http:/www.saber.ula.ve/handle/123456789/51605. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  La criminología narrativa es una perspectiva relativamente reciente que explica la acción criminal y otros actos dañinos a través de las narrativas que las personas construyen. Su premisa central es que estas narrativas no solo legitiman y motivan el daño, sino que también pueden contribuir a su resistencia o desistimiento. Este artículo explora la criminología narrativa desde una doble perspectiva: teórica y metodológica. En el plano teórico, sitúa esta corriente dentro de un marco conceptual amplio. En el plano metodológico, presenta cuatro enfoques distintos para el análisis narrativo: temático, estructural, performativo y dialógico. Para ilustrar la aplicación de estos enfoques, el artículo examina la narrativa de una entrevista con Mateo, un hombre recluido en un centro penitenciario en México, en el marco del proyecto de investigación CRIMLA (Crimen en América Latina).

• Olivares, Nancy Gutiérrez; Goyes, David & Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Familism and Family Violence in Mexico. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. ISSN 0886-2605. 41(5-6), p. 1174–1195. doi: 10.1177/08862605251319009. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Families are integral to the organization of Mexican society. In a context where the State is absent or weak, the family serves as a social safety net and is pivotal for everything from housing to paid work. As the structural backbone of Mexican society, the family exists within a widespread cultural representation denominated as familism, often characterized by a culture of conflict avoidance, tight relationships, mutual support, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the family. In other words, the family contributes to a more harmonious society. But organizing society around the family also has a shadow side. Using data from repeat interviews with 50 incarcerated persons in Mexico, we show how family dynamics and the associated culture of familism are tied to abusive domestic relationships—phenomena that are critical to understanding family violence in Mexico. We explore the many links between familism and family violence by an in-depth look at four closely intertwined familism processes that facilitate victimization: preventing victims from disclosing family violence; preventing the family from denouncing violence against one of its members; the victim remaining with the family despite the abuse; and the victim being forced to remain in abusive relationships. These four ways that family structures play into victimization within the family are not exclusive to Mexico or other countries shaped historically by familism, but the cultural and discursive structures of familism amplify them.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Tutenges, Sébastien (2025). What Good Can Stories Do? In Presser, Lois; Fleetwood, Jennifer & Sandberg, Sveinung (Ed.), Narrating Justice and Hope. How Good Stories Counter Crime and Harm. New York University Press. ISSN 9781479824496. p. 19–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois; Fleetwood, Jennifer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Introduction: Good/Story. In Presser, Lois; Fleetwood, Jennifer & Sandberg, Sveinung (Ed.), Narrating Justice and Hope. How Good Stories Counter Crime and Harm. New York University Press. ISSN 9781479824496. p. 1–16. Full text in Research Archive
• Pérez, Gustavo Fondevila; Marco, Martin Hernan Di; Agoff, Carolina & Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Crime as a Job: Risk Assessment and Desistance Within Professional Narratives Roles. Justice quarterly. ISSN 0741-8825. 43(1), p. 107–128. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2025.2475212. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Studies have shown that people who commit criminalized acts draw upon different narrative roles. This study highlights the narrative role of the professional and explores how such identities and self-understandings influence risk assessment and desistance. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 54 prisoners from Argentina, Chile, Honduras, and Mexico—all convicted of theft and robbery. The language of formal work and references to detailed risk assessments are essential features of this narrative role. Participants give examples of successful robberies and situational evaluations of danger and consider themselves different from “less professional” accomplices. They describe desistance as motivated by the desire to have some form of “life insurance” and the increase in risk and consequences for family. This cross-country qualitative study details, nuances and contextualizes the narrative role of the professional and argues that this offender identity is important to understand desistance processes in Latin America.

• Marco, Martin Hernan Di; Sandberg, Sveinung & Fondevila, Gustavo (2025). Parenthood, gender, and turning points to crime for young people in Latin America. Advances in Life Course Research. ISSN 1569-4909. 63. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100657. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In very different societal contexts, parenthood has been identified as a critical turning point in life course trajectories. In this qualitative study, we explore parenthood as a turning point for 40 young women and 40 young men in prisons across Latin America. We study the impact of parenthood on criminal trajectories, identify gender differences, and analyze the different mechanisms at work. The analysis distinguishes between positive (crime reducing) and negative (crime increasing) changes following parenthood. When participants felt that they had to change, “slow down” or obtain a more stable and risk-free income, their criminal activities often declined. For women, parenthood could also stabilize healthy intimate relationships, which appeared beneficial for avoiding crime and other harmful practices. On the other hand, frustration arising from failing as parents and increased tensions in daily life often increased criminal involvement. The need for more money, and the absence of legal options for making an income had the same effect. Importantly, negative changes following parenthood were gendered. Men sometimes described frustration at feeling obliged to spend more time at home. For women, parenthood could cement an abusive relationship, cause problems because they became single mothers or make them lose social support. The study is based on repeated qualitative interviews and emphasizes perceived effects of parenthood. The research reveals the variety and nuances of the role of parenthood in criminal trajectories in Latin America and highlights the importance of socio-economic circumstances for criminal trajectories. We argue that in contexts of structural poverty and unemployment, where illegal economies often dominate over legal ones (as seen in many Global South settings), parenthood may lead to increased criminal involvement rather than desistance.

• Goyes, David Rodriguez & Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews. Qualitative Research. ISSN 1468-7941. doi: 10.1177/14687941241246159. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Most methodological discussions about the pros and cons of repeat interviews fall within qualitative longitudinal literature and are premised on project designs with relatively long intervals between encounters. Less attention has been paid to the practice and ethics of repeat interviewing as a stand-alone method, that does not follow participants long-term, but instead conducts several interviews over a short period of time. This article is based on interviews and research logs from a project in which over 350 incarcerated persons in Latin America were interviewed. We evaluate the advantages and shortcomings of repeat interviewing, in this case, three sessions with each participant with up to a week in between sessions. We find that repeat interviewing increases trust and rapport, contributes to nuanced data, generates reflexivity, and ensures more ethical research by making it easier for researchers to care for participants. Yet the method also has the disadvantages of demanding a significant investment of resources, the risk of losing participants, and on occasion, the emotional challenge of breaking strong bonds when researchers and participants part ways. We argue that the advantages of repeat interviews exceed the shortcomings, but ethical concerns added to the cost in time, energy, and money might at times proscribe the method.

• Goyes, David Rodriguez & Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Crímen en América Latina: El Rol del Estado, el Mercado Laboral, y la Familia. Derecho, Criminología y Sociedad. ISSN 2981-6890. Full text in Research Archive
• Banafsheh, Azin; Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Rasisme og motstand: Minoritetsungdom slår tilbake. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS). ISSN 0040-716X. 65(1), p. 24–45. doi: 10.18261/tfs.65.1.2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Mange etniske minoriteter opplever rasisme som et stort problem i Norge. Dette gjelder spesielt mikroaggresjoner basert på kulturelle forestillinger om at «det norske» er overlegent. I denne artikkelen beskriver vi ulike former for rasisme og legger vekt på hvordan disse ble motarbeidet gjennom det vi kaller hverdagsmotstand. Studien er basert på 41 kvalitative intervjuer med personer med minoritetsbakgrunn, hovedsakelig svarte, som deltok i Black Lives Matter-demonstrasjonene i Norge. Fem former for hverdagsrasisme var spesielt framtredende: skjellsord og nedsettende ytringer, forskjellsbehandling og diskriminering, antakelser om ikke å være «norsk», antakelser om lav sosial status og fordomsfull inkludering. Dette var i hovedsak mikroaggresjoner som fant sted i hverdagslig sosial samhandling. De fem vanligste reaksjonene på rasisme var forsøk på å motvirke den ved å ignorere, konfrontere, dele erfaringer, rapportere og demonstrere. Studien viser hvor sentralt det hverdagslige er for å forstå etniske minoriteters opplevelser av rasisme – og motstand. Vi argumenterer for at denne typen hverdagsmotstand, er viktigere enn både politisk protest og formelle rapporteringer. Dette er fordi hverdagen har en regelmessighet og kontinuerlig tilstedeværelse som andre former for motstand mangler. Minoriteter i Norge opplever mye hets og forskjellsbehandling, men de er ikke passive ofre. Denne studien viser hvordan de aktivt forhandler, håndterer og kjemper mot rasisme.

• Marco, Martin Hernan Di & Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Fear, helplessness, pain, anger: The narrated emotions of intimate femicide perpetrators in Latin America. International Sociology. ISSN 0268-5809. doi: 10.1177/02685809241243009. Full text in Research Archive
• Berger, Eirik Jerven; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2024). Dealing blant fattige og rike. Forebygging.no. doi: 10.21340/h57v-g689. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  En lang tradisjon av forskere har belyst dealing i gatekulturer. Miljøene som har blitt belyst, har vært sosialt marginale, og selgerne har ikke hatt tilgang på noe særlig kulturell eller økonomisk kapital, som ellers er vanlige kilder til selvrespekt. Men i Oslo er både bruken av illegale rusmidler og omfanget av dealingen høyere i de velstående og vestlige bydelene enn i de fattigere østlige delene av byen. Det er lite forskning på salg av illegale rusmidler i velstående områder, selv om noen få amerikanske studier peker mot at dealere i slike miljøer kommer fra samme bakgrunn som kundene sine, de er gjerne lite synlige, de tar ikke del i vold og oppdages sjelden av politiet. I denne studien trekker vi på to datasett: en studie av åpent salg i indre Oslo øst og en av mer skjult dealing i velstående vestlige deler av byen. Den østlige scenen var preget av marginaliserte unge menn med etnisk minoritetsbakgrunn. Vold og kontakt med politiet var del av hverdagen. Dealerne i de vestlige bydelene var ikke involvert i vold, men de var preget av en relativ marginalisering, sammenliknet med jevnaldrende i deres miljøer. De kom dessuten fra familier med noe dårligere økonomi enn det som var typisk i deres omgivelser. Flertallet hadde hatt kontakt med politiet på grunn av salget. Det er altså større likheter mellom dealerne i de fattigere og mer velstående delene av Oslo enn en kunne ha forventet basert på tidligere forskning.

• Tutenges, Sébastien & Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Street-Level Counter Terrorism. Opposition to violent jihadism in criminal milieus. In Amir, Rostami & Edling, Christofer (Ed.), Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook. Lexington Books. ISSN 9781793632852. Full text in Research Archive
• Tutenges, Sébastien & Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Varieties of Violence in Street Culture. Deviant Behavior. ISSN 0163-9625. 45(2), p. 179–191. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2243371. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Violence is central to social life, especially for people at the margins of urban society. This article examines ethnographic data collected in Oslo among individuals who are involved in street life and crime. We propose the following typology for understanding violence in this population: respect-based violence, business violence, drunken violence, and family violence. We argue that from an emic perspective, these types are substantially different from one another and evoke varying moral evaluations. Violence that has to do with respect, business, or drinking tends to be tolerated, sometimes even celebrated, whereas family violence tends to be condemned. Violence is not a uniform phenomenon. It comes in different types and is experienced and made sense of differently across cultural contexts. These findings challenge a dominating trend in contemporary micro-sociology, spearheaded by Randall Collins, which focuses on identifying universal rules of violent situations at the expense of sensitivity to cultural variation.

• Marco, Martín Hernán Di & Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). “This is My Story”: Why People in Prison Participate in Qualitative Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM). 22, p. 1–11. doi: 10.1177/16094069231171102. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study aims to understand why people agree to participate in qualitative research. While some studies have emphasized the motivation to participate in research, the nuances and underlying stories that favor participation have not yet been examined. Using data from repeated biographical open-ended interviews with men and women convicted of violent crimes in Argentina and Chile, we distinguish between stories emphasizing the interviews as a space or opportunity for a) healing and self-improvement, b) venting emotions, c) presenting alternative stories, and d) creating individual or systemic change. We also discuss stories that indicate a different direction, namely e) skepticism regarding research participation. The stories are discussed in view of self-presentations, the prison context, and issues of consent. Our study underscores the importance of critically exploring widespread narratives about the benefits of qualitative interviews. Understanding the stories that encourage or discourage participation in research allows for a more nuanced comprehension of the recruitment processes, consent to participate, and the qualitative interview dynamics.

• Fondevila, Gustavo & Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). The “new” crimes of pandemics: observations and insights from Latin America. Security Journal. ISSN 0955-1662. doi: 10.1057/s41284-023-00379-0. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We study the emergence of new forms of law violations in Latin America during the coronavirus pandemic. Based on data from online news articles, we construct a typology of “new” crimes: (1) hate or fear crimes against health workers and hospitals; (2) illegal denials of public mobility out of fear of infection; (3) looting and other traditional crimes justified by the pandemic; and (4) violations of pandemic regulations. Studies of crime during the pandemic have focused on traditional crime and have been based on rational choice theory and a routine activities approach. We argue that in order to understand the recent crime trends in Latin America, these must be accompanied by other theories of crime, together with a better understanding of the role of the State. Our typology can be a starting point for discussions and further research on the complex relationship between criminal behavior and policy responses in pandemics.

• Agoff, Caroline; Bruno, Matias & Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Protecting Parents, Idealizing the Past, Blaming Friends: Life Stories of Men Imprisoned for Violence. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology. ISSN 0306-624X. doi: 10.1177/0306624X231198802. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Life-stories emerge from a wide variety of facts and events in individual lives and weave a selected few of these together to make meaning in the present. They are crucial for constructing identity and influence action by establishing worldviews and a persona that narrators will seek to confirm. In this study we describe three main themes in the life-stories of six incarcerated men in Argentina: a) Protecting family, especially parents; b) reconstructing an ideal past, and contrasting it with a more cynical present; and c) blaming criminal neighborhoods, friends, and girlfriends for their crimes. We discuss how these themes are intertwined, what function they fulfill, and the identities and masculinities they produce. Combining research on life-stories with narrative and psychosocial criminology the analysis reveals how life-stories of incarcerated men can be seen as attempts at countering stigma and defending a self that is under attack. The life-stories portray a believable, ‘good’, and multifaceted image of the self, but most importantly, create coherence and unity in otherwise chaotic lives.

• Goyes, David Rodriguez & Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. ISSN 1057-610X. doi: 10.1080/1057610X.2023.2297319. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The relationship between war and crime is complex and multifaceted. Still, insurgents, armed rebels, and paramilitary groups and the vio- lence they perpetrate are often understood within either a framework of war or of crime. Based on repeat interviews with former members of Colombian paramilitary groups, we describe the role of economic motivations, security concerns, social relations, as well as identity and feelings of power in motivating people’s involvement in these groups. A life-course analysis demonstrates the many possible confluences of war and crime leading to involvement in paramilitary groups and emphasizes how these change over time.

• Sandberg, Sveinung; Tutenges, Sébastien & Ilan, Jonathan (2023). The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization and resistance to extremism. European Journal of Criminology. ISSN 1477-3708. doi: 10.1177/14773708231182520. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  For over a decade, jihadi terrorism in Europe, and the recruitment of Europeans to fight for ISIS in Syria, have increasingly involved marginalized youths from a social context of street culture, illegal drug use and crime. Existing theoretical models of the crime-terrorism nexus and radicalization arguably do not sufficiently explain the fluid and dynamic ways by which the street cultural come to be politico-religiously violent. This paper provides a novel retheorization, the street-jihadi spectrum, which is better placed to explain a wide range of behaviours, from the merely stylistic to the spectacularly violent. On the street culture end it includes subcultural play with provocative jihadi symbols and on the jihadi end the terrorism of ‘gangster-jihadists’. We emphasize that the spectrum, consisting of a multitude of confluences of street and jihadi cultures, also includes resistance to jihadism.

• Goyes, David Rodriguez & Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life stories. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 28(1). doi: 10.1177/13624806231173665. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Music is ubiquitous in contemporary societies, and criminologists are paying increasing attention to it, asserting that it takes antisocial, prosocial and anti-establishment forms regarding criminality. Established approaches provide vital ways to understand the relationship of music and crime, but criminologists have yet to theorise the fluidity of music's roles for those who have committed criminalised acts. The life-story interviews we conducted with prisoners in Latin America reveal that music's role in people's lives changes over the course of their lives in complex ways. It also frames and influences the way they talk about their own histories. Informed by repeat interviews with four prisoners, we suggest including the concepts of life courses and life stories to facilitate understanding the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the relationship between crime and music. We also demonstrate and discuss how life courses and life stories are intertwined.

• Berger, Eirik Jerven; Pedersen, Willy & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Pathways to Drug Dealing in the Middle and Upper Classes: Early Marginalization, Relative Disadvantage and Countercultural Opposition. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 63(4), p. 889–905. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azac063. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract Drug dealing is widespread in all sectors of society but is still studied predominantly in disadvantaged urban areas. We identify three main pathways to drug dealing based on qualitative interviews with middle- and upper-class individuals in Oslo, Norway. First, problems in the family and school and a lack of belonging in affluent neighbourhoods intersected with drug use and eventually led to recruitment into the illegal drug economy. Second, criminal entrepreneurship developed among relatively disadvantaged people who dealt drugs in an affluent low-risk context. Third, dealing emerged from involvement in drug liberalization and medical marihuana countercultures. The first pathway is similar to trajectories in disadvantaged urban areas, while the others reveal the importance of studying drug dealing in the upper layers of society.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Narrative analysis in criminology. Journal of Criminal Justice Education. ISSN 1051-1253. 33(2), p. 212–229. doi: 10.1080/10511253.2022.2027479. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Crime is both storyable and storied, and narrative analysis is thus essential for criminologists. In this article I present four different ways of doing narrative analysis: thematic, structural, performative and dialogical. These forms of analysis have different research questions and are associated with very different research traditions. Narrative analysis varies depending on whether researchers are interested in the content of what is told, how it is done, who is narrating and where it is done, or what narratives are at play in a story. The article describes the methodological process of these different approaches and exemplifies their specific application in an interview with a violent offender. It discusses the many advantages, but also the limitations of each of the narrative analysis traditions. Furthermore, it presents the narrative work stories do, such as entertaining, identity and boundary work, and processing and integrating—and argues that it is essential to understand these to capture the role of stories for crime.

• Bucerius, Sandra & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Women in prisons. Crime and justice. ISSN 0192-3234. 51, p. 137–186. doi: 10.1086/722105. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Before being locked up, incarcerated women are more marginalized, have higher rates of mental illness and substance misuse, and have more often experienced physical or sexual victimization than incarcerated men. Women experience prison differently. However, much of what we know about women’s experiences comes from research in the United States and the United Kingdom, providing little insight into women prisoners’ experiences elsewhere. This is unfortunate for many reasons; policy makers wishing to develop evidence-based initiatives, for example, cannot know whether what seems to work in one place is appropriate in another. Case studies from Canada, Norway, and Mexico reveal similarities and substantial differences in women’s experiences. Incarcerated women in all three places have histories of victimization and identify their children as their primary motivator to desist from crime and drug use. However, how they relate to programming, prison work, accommodation, and prison food varies greatly. How women in these three different countries experience imprisonment is related to conditions of their lives outside of prison and to the nature, extent, and quality of available social welfare services. Researchers need to pay much closer attention to geographical and contextual differences when assessing the conditions, challenges, and prospects of women in prisons.

• Linge, Marius; Sandberg, Sveinung & Tutenges, Sébastien (2022). Confluences of Street Culture and Jihadism: The Spatial, Bodily, and Narrative Dimensions of Radicalization. Terrorism and Political Violence. ISSN 0954-6553. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1080/09546553.2022.2042269. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Research on the new crime-terror nexus has focused on examining the confluences of criminal and jihadist milieus. This article contributes to this research, using insights from criminological theory and analyzing data from interviews with Muslim men who have been exposed to jihadism and have a background in street life and crime. We propose that the connection between street crime and jihadism can be seen in three decisive points of confluence: places, bodies, and narratives. We show how specific places (e.g. prisons) enable the encounter between particular bodies (e.g. violently competent bodies) and the engagement or disengagement with certain extremist narratives (e.g. stories of redemption through violence). The crime-terror literature emphasizes that these points of confluence are sources of radicalization. We expand upon this by arguing that they may also serve as venues for resisting or rejecting politico-religious extremism. The study demonstrates that radicalization is only one possible outcome of the confluences between street culture and jihadism.

• Ellefsen, Rune; Banafsheh, Azin & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Resisting racism in everyday life: from ignoring to confrontation and protest. Ethnic and Racial Studies. ISSN 0141-9870. 45(16), p. 435–457. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2094716. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Racial discrimination takes many forms and so does opposition to it. In contrast to the dominant emphasis on institutional or state efforts to counter racism, we examine how members of racially minoritized groups resist racism in their everyday lives. Drawing on 41 qualitative interviews with young, mainly Black, people in Norway, we identify five distinct ways in which they actively counter racism, as opposed to passively accepting or adapting to it. Participants resisted racism by ignoring, confronting, sharing experiences about, reporting and protesting it. Our analysis explicates the characteristics, potential outcomes, and social function of such resistance to racism. The study contributes to the literature on everyday racism and antiracism by making evident how those at the receiving end negotiate and actively oppose racist experiences.

• Wanke, Michał; Sandberg, Sveinung; Macit, Ruken & Gulerce, Hakan (2022). Culture matters! Changes in the global landscape of cannabis. Drugs: education prevention and policy. ISSN 0968-7637. 29(4), p. 317–322. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2022.2091301. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Everyday Prevention of Radicalization: The impacts of family, peer and police intervention. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. ISSN 1057-610X. doi: 10.1080/1057610X.2022.2037185. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study examines early intervention against individual radicalization. The data originate from interviews with young Muslims in Norway who had experienced interventions related to their own radicalization, or engaged in or witnessed interventions directed at a radicalized peer or relative. We find that informal interventions by family and friends were most prevalent in the data and played the most decisive role in interrupting radicalization, while police interventions were less common and had mixed results. Interventions by family or peers often came early in the radicalization process, were employed by trusted “insiders”, and took place as part of everyday life, thus having less detrimental consequences for radicalized individuals. We finally discuss the challenges of combining interventions by family members and friends with involvements from the police and security service.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. 56(6). doi: 10.1177/00380385221081385. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the spring of 2020, the Black Lives Matter protests shook the Western world. Spreading from the USA, demonstrations diffused globally, especially to Europe, calling out racism in its different forms. Emotions ran high and were pivotal in igniting protests. The role of emotion in social movements has received renewed scholarly attention during the last decades. It plays an important role at every stage of protest, but few studies have traced its part in individuals’ shifting engagement over time. This study examines the role of emotion during the global wave of Black Lives Matter protests. Based on retrospective interviews with 38 participants in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Norway, we identify the role of emotion before, during and after their participation. Our findings help explain how individual patterns of participation develop in the course of a wave of protest, and also provide insights into the consequences of the recent Black Lives Matter protests in Europe.

• Copes, Heith; Sandberg, Sveinung & Ragland, Jared (2022). Protecting Stories: How Symbolic Boundaries Reduce Victimization and Harmful Drug Use. Crime and delinquency. ISSN 0011-1287. 69(3). doi: 10.1177/00111287221100131. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Symbolic boundaries are used for establishing narrative identities and have critical impact on behavior and interpersonal interactions. Using data from a photo-ethnography of people who use methamphetamine in Alabama we show how women use stories and images to draw symbolic boundaries between themselves and others. These boundaries made sense of their meth use, but also guided behavior, controlled drug use, and aided in negotiating personal relationships. Maintaining boundaries through stories and images is important for people with drug problems, as such boundaries provide self-worth and serve as ideals to be lived up to. Symbolic boundaries can thus reduce harmful drug use and be an important means for exercising control and agency at the margins of society.

• Jensen, Sune Qvotrup; Larsen, Jeppe Fuglsang & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Rap, Islam and Jihadi Cool: The attractions of the Western jihadi subculture. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. ISSN 1741-6590. doi: 10.1177/17416590211025573. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Recent scholarship has explored the potential of subcultural theory for understanding the convergence of Western street and jihadi subcultures. The role of jihadi rap in this radical hybrid culture, however, is yet uncharted. We argue that subcultural analysis allows an understanding of the aesthetic fascination of jihadism, sometimes referred to as jihadi cool, and that jihadi rap should be seen as an integrated part of this cultural amalgam. To better understand the role of hip-hop in the hybrid street-jihadi culture, this paper offers a historical analysis of the relationship between hip-hop and Islam and detailed insight into the more contemporary, and marginal, phenomena of jihadi rap. We track the continuities and discontinuities from the presence of Black Islam in early hip hop to recent convergences between hip hop and jihadism. Our analysis draws on Lévi-Strauss concepts of bricolage and floating signifiers. Subcultures and hip-hop music are seen as bricolages that draw on a multitude of cultural references with their own particular history. In these cultural bricolages, Islam often acts as a floating signifier, with different and often ambiguous meanings. We argue and demonstrate that Islam has a long history of being part of hip-hop rebellion and attraction and that this, channelled through jihadi rap, can contribute to jihadi cool and the contemporary pull of Western jihadi subcultures.

• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). A repertoire of everyday resistance: young Muslims’ responses to anti-Muslim hostility. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. ISSN 1369-183X. 48(11), p. 2601–2619. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1894913. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Research has shown widespread discrimination and hostility toward Muslims in Western countries. There is less knowledge of how Muslims resist, oppose, or challenge such behaviour. Based on in-depth interviews with 90 young Muslims in Norway, this study explores responses to anti-Muslim hostility. We describe a repertoire of everyday resistance: talking back, entering dialogue, living the example, denying significance, and talking down. The first three forms occur in face-to-face encounters while the latter two are retrospect sense-making of negative experiences. We conceptualise these responses as everyday resistance because they entail ways of actively countering anti-Muslim hostility, as opposed to passively accepting or adapting to it. This repertoire of everyday resistance can make it easier to avoid victimisation, protect religious identities, and ease the daily lives of young Muslims. Increased attention to narrative resistance in studies of everyday resistance will provide a better understanding of the many ways in which marginalised groups cope, resist, and struggle with their stigma.

• Poppi, Fabio M. & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Ex malo bonum: Ambiguity in stories of organized crime. Deviant Behavior. ISSN 0163-9625. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2021.2019567. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Research on crime tends to emphasize clear-cut stories, either in support of or rejecting crime. Stories, however, are often ambiguous, mainly when they concern complex and multi-faceted phenomena. Based on qualitative interviews with Italian students, we explore how organized crime is viewed and evaluated by non-offenders. We found six widespread stories that highlight the moral ambiguity of organized crime, including such ambiguities as: people are good and evil; family relations take priority; crime involves ample opportunities and big money; organized crime is complex and involves “smart” organizations and that there are gray zones between business and crime and the endemicity of organized crime. Finally, we show the bounds of this moral ambiguity by pointing out what participants could not accept from organized crime organizations. The study was done within a framework of narrative criminology. We put a particular emphasis on how crime is socially constructed by those not involved, how worldviews of criminal organizations are embedded in more widespread values and the importance of ambiguity in storytelling.

• Tutenges, Sébastien & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Street culture meets extremism: How Muslims involved in street life and crime oppose jihadism. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 62(6), p. 1502–1517. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azab117. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract Many studies have examined why individuals with a background in street life and crime are drawn toward extremism. This paper examines why most people with this background reject extremism. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo, we found that Muslims involved in street culture were generally opposed to jihadism because they perceived jihadists as evil people who harm innocents; bad Muslims who defame Islam; and cowards who break the ‘code of the street.’ This opposition resulted in avoidance behaviours, criticism and, sometimes, violence against suspected jihadists. We argue that research on the crime-terror nexus has focussed too narrowly on the similarities between street culture and jihadism, contributing to a distorted image of Muslims involved in street culture as potential terrorists.

• Agoff, Carolina; Fondevila, Gustavo & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Cultural stigmatization and police corruption: cannabis, gender, and legalization in Mexico. Drugs: education prevention and policy. ISSN 0968-7637. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2021.2004089. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Mexico may well be the largest country in the world to legalize cannabis. Nevertheless, it is culturally conservative and a certain discrepancy exists between liberalization reforms and popular opinion regarding cannabis. Based on qualitative interviews with 100 cannabis users in Mexico City, we describe the gendered differences in perceptions and experiences of cannabis use. While the young women in the study stated that they used cannabis to deal with family issues, to be less shy with friends, and to feel more attractive, the young men emphasized pressure from school or work, aggressiveness, and integration into their peer group when accounting for their use. Furthermore, men reported police corruption and legal issues as the main problems associated with their use of cannabis, while women’s use was strongly conditioned by a fear of becoming less respectable in their families’ eyes and the stigma of being seen as a ‘lost’ or ‘bad’ woman. We argue that the consequences of cannabis decriminalization in Mexico are likely to be highly gendered: While men who use cannabis may experience fewer legal problems and encounters with the police, women who use cannabis are likely to continue to be culturally and socially stigmatized.

• Fleetwood, Jennifer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Narrative Criminology and Ethnography. In Bucerius, Sandra; Haggerty, Kevin & Berardi, Luca (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190904500. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.12. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter outlines how criminological researchers can attend to narrative as part of their ethnographic practice. Attention to the narrativity of speech, conversations, and texts pertaining to both individuals and groups has the potential to enrich ethnographic research on crime, criminal justice, and victims/survivors. It accentuates that stories told in field, between research participants—and to the researcher—are paramount for most ethnographic fieldwork. Ethnographers can draw much from contemporary developments in narrative criminology. We outline two insights in particular: talk is a kind of social action that does things and, second, stories motivate and guide behaviour. We review research in narrative criminology to demonstrate the importance of stories for understanding crime and justice: they delineate insiders and outsiders, convey identity, supply know-how, and display criminal capital. Vengeance and violence are also a way to tell or enact stories. This chapter also explores questions of methodology and discusses some practical issues such as how to invite storytelling and how to use recording devices in the field. We conclude with some thoughts about future directions for narrative criminology and ethnography.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Rojas, Lucero Ibarra (2021). A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing. Crime, law and social change. ISSN 0925-4994. p. 1–18. doi: 10.1007/s10611-021-10006-x. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Criminology have long celebrated the lone hero researcher. Doing and writing up research in solitude has been the key to academic success and institutional promotions. However, the social sciences in general have increasingly moved towards more collaborative ways of doing research, and co-authorship has become more common. In this study, we summarize and discuss the pros and cons of working in teams when doing qualitative research. Drawing upon our own experiences from Mexico and Norway, we argue for a radical approach to team research and co-authorship, which we describe as team writing. Most importantly, we suggest opening up to include stakeholders and community partners, thus challenging the borders between researchers and those researched. This is arguably particularly important for research done in the academic, geographical and topical periphery of criminology. Team research and writing answers some of the critique of power inequality, representativity and lack of diversity in contemporary academic research. We also believe that team research, and writing, can make criminological research more multifaceted, reflexive, and thus better.

• Banafsheh, Azin; Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). "Jævla terrorist!" Muslimhets og hverdagsmotstand. In Ødegård, Guro & Pedersen, Willy (Ed.), UNGDOMMEN. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202732998. p. 317–335. doi: 10.23865/noasp.142.ch14. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  De siste ti til tjue årene har frykten for islam på mange måter erstattet tradisjonell rasisme i Norge (Bangstad & Døving, 2015). Muslimhat, hets og antiislamisme preger hverdagen til de rundt 200 000 norske muslimene her. Skjeve blikk på gata, fiendtlige kommentarer og mer formell diskriminering er uttrykk for skepsis og fordommer mot islam. Noen ganger får retorikken også mer alvorlige utslag. Antiislamistisk retorikk var bakgrunnen for det største terrorangrepet på norsk jord, i 2011 (Berntzen & Sandberg, 2014). Senest i 2019 var det et nytt forsøk på massedrap i Bærum, med muslimer som mål. Bare tilfeldigheter gjorde at angrepet ikke fikk et større omfang, som terrorangrepet 22. juli. I et stort forskningsprosjekt har vi intervjuet 90 norske muslimer i alderen 18–32 år. Med utgangspunkt i disse intervjuene gir vi en oversikt over unge muslimers opplevelser av muslimhets. Hatvold, netthets og diskriminering får mye oppmerksomhet i media. Men den mest utbredte hetsen unge muslimer opplever, den som preger hverdagen deres, er nedlatende kommentarer, negativt ladete spørsmål og skjellsord, både fra fremmede og fra bekjente. Det er få samfunnsforskere som har undersøkt reaksjonene på slike ubehagelige hendelser. Vi ser derfor på hvilke strategier unge muslimer har i møte med hat og stereotypier. I dette kapitlet spør vi hvilke former for muslimhets de opplever, og hva de gjør for å yte motstand mot hetsen og leve med den? Resultatene våre nyanserer og utfordrer bildet av det passive muslimske offeret som preger både den offentlige debatten og forskningen på muslimfiendtlighet.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Fondevila, Gustavo (2021). Corona crimes: How pandemic narratives change criminal landscapes. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 26(2), p. 224–244. doi: 10.1177/1362480620981637. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The epidemic psychology of pandemics creates an atmosphere of panic and fear that can expedite new laws and facilitate criminogenic narrative arousal. Using narrative criminology, we discuss crimes that emerged from pandemic narratives in the early phases of the disease in Mexico. We show how pandemic master narratives have unexpected criminogenic effects; can be negotiated to make them criminogenic; and are opposed by more fundamentally criminogenic counter-narratives. We also show how pandemics repurpose justifications for traditional crimes and offer an opportunity for narrative repositioning of “criminals”. Societal crises intensify the continuous narrative negotiation that always underlies the meaning of crime. Pandemics can therefore act as a prism through which social scientists can see how crime is an ongoing narrative accomplishment.

• Sandberg, Sveinung; Agoff, Carolina & Fondevila, Gustavo (2020). Doing Marginalized Motherhood: Identities and practices among incarcerated women in Mexico. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. ISSN 2202-7998. 9(2). doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v10i1.1538. Full text in Research Archive
• Poppi, Fabio M. & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). A bene placito: Narratives of sex work. Narrative Inquiry. ISSN 1387-6740. 30(2), p. 294–315. doi: 10.1075/ni.18053.pop. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sex work is often interpreted through master narratives that see women as victimized and subjected to stigmas and negative attitudes. This paper offers an insight into narratives that challenge or can be seen as an alternative to these narratives. Data are from a sample of 15 interviews with women who show an interest in sex work, conducted in a netnographic context. While widespread master narratives about sex work tend to revolve around the notion of commodification, these alternative narratives present scenarios in which sex work is interpreted as a complex activity of networking and self-promotion. The women’s narratives describe how sex work can have positive implications for the development of careers, social impact and female emancipation, and is morally coherent. Arguably, they can be important in understanding the stories that instigate and sustain sex work.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Colvin, Sarah (2020). ‘ISIS is not Islam’: Epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims’ Narrative Resistance. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 60(6), p. 1585–1605. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azaa035. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Powerful narratives that invoke religious concepts—jihad, Sharia, shahid, Caliphate, kuffar, and al-Qiyāmah—have accompanied jihadi violence but also inspired robust counter-narratives from Muslims. Taking a narrative criminological approach, we explore the rejection of religious extremism that emerges in everyday interactions in a religious community under intense pressure in Western societies. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 90 young Muslims in Norway, we argue that young Muslims suffer epistemic injustice in their narrative exclusion from the mainstream and assess the narrative credibility they try to maintain in the face of marginalization. We suggest that young Muslims’ religious narratives reject a mainstream characterization of Islam as essentially a religion of aggression and simultaneously join forces with that mainstream in seeking the narrative exclusion of the jihadi extremists.

• Agoff, Carolina; Sandberg, Sveinung & Fondevila, Gustavo (2020). Women Providing and Men Free Riding: Work, visits and gender roles in Mexican prisons. Victims & Offenders. ISSN 1556-4886. 15(7-8), p. 1086–1104. doi: 10.1080/15564886.2020.1828210. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, prisons in Mexico City prohibited visits. This sparked clearly gendered protests: male prison inmates complained that the restrictions left them without resources to deal with prison shortages, while women complained that it prevented them from sending resources to their families. Based on data from life story interviews conducted before the pandemic, we explore visits, prison work, and gendered child-rearing practices in Mexican prisons. We argue that incarcerated mothers adopt a provider role in prison, in contrast to incarcerated fathers, who abandon this traditionally masculine fatherhood role. Suspension of visits thus have distinctly gendered consequences.

• Sunde, Hans Myhre; Ilan, Jonathan & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). A Cultural Criminology of ‘New’ Jihad: Insights from Propaganda Magazines. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. ISSN 1741-6590. doi: 10.1177/1741659020915509. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The backgrounds and modus operandi of more recent jihadi terrorists tend to share factors and characteristics more typically associated with non-political violence such as mass-killings and gang violence. Their attacks, moreover, seem to have been precipitated not by the direct instructions of a formal hierarchy but by the encouragement of propaganda produced and disseminated by networked, media-savvy terrorist groups. It is necessary to explain how these “recruitment” efforts work. Cultural criminology, with its understanding of the relationship between mediated meaning and individual experience, can provide such an analysis. The article presents a qualitative document analysis of 32 propaganda magazines produced by the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. It demonstrates that they contain significantly more than religious rhetoric and military strategy. Rather, they are part of a process that crystalizes a jihadi subculture that appeals to disaffected and/or marginalized, excitement-seeking youths. The magazines cultivate violence by constructing a militarized style that celebrates outlaw status, where violence is eroticized and aestheticized. They idealize the notion of a jihadi terrorist that is tough and willing to commit brutal violence. The lifestyle portrayed offers the possibility of heroism, excitement, belonging and imminent fame, themes often espoused by conventional, Western consumer culture. The magazines occasionally draw on street jargon, urban music, fashion, films, and video games. The subcultural model of jihadi propaganda we explicate provides a novel way of understanding terrorist recruiting tactics and motivations that are not necessarily in opposition to contemporary conventional criminal and “mainstream” cultures, but in resonance with them.

• Sandberg, Sveinung; Agoff, Carolina & Fondevila, Gustavo (2020). Stories of the ‘Good Father’. The role of fatherhood among incarcerated men in Mexico. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. 24(2), p. 241–261. doi: 10.1177/1462474520969822. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study examines the role of fatherhood for incarcerated men in Mexico, based on repeated life-story interviews with twelve men. We distinguish between their descriptions of fatherhood in the past and present and how they imagine the future, and explore how fathers describe their relationship with their children. The incarcerated men idealize the past with their children or tell stories of how they have changed from being “bad” to “good” fathers. They emphasize how they are still able to protect and educate their children from prison, reflecting widespread values of fatherhood. They admit that fathering while incarcerated is difficult and hope that things will be better in the future. In line with previous research on fathers in prison, we argue that storytelling of being “good fathers” is a way of projecting “normalcy”, using one of the few gendered resources available, and is an escape from the harsh realities of prison life. Following insights from narrative criminology and desistance studies, we further argue that their stories of fatherhood can be a resource for reintegration into society. Finally, we suggest that inmates’ emphasis on involved fatherhood might reflect diffusing narratives, ideals, and norms of parenting.

• Gashi, Liridona; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2020). Making “bad trips” good. How users of psychedelics narratively transform challenging trips into valuable experiences. International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 87. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102997. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background We study the significance of stories about bad trips among users of psychedelics. Drawing on narrative theory, we describe the characteristics of such stories and explore the work they do. Methods In-depth qualitative interviews with 50 Norwegian users of psychedelics. Results Almost all participants had frightening experiences when using psychedelics and many described these as bad trips. The key feature of a bad trip was a feeling of losing oneself or going crazy, or ego dissolution. Most users said that these experiences could be avoided by following certain rules, based on tacit knowledge in the subcultures of users. Possessing such knowledge was part of symbolic boundary work that distinguished between drug culture insiders and outsiders. Some also rejected the validity of the term bad trip altogether, arguing that such experiences reflected the lack of such competence. Finally, and most importantly, most participants argued that unpleasant experiences during bad trips had been beneficial and had sometimes given them deep existential and life-altering insights. Conclusion Bad trip experiences are common among users of psychedelics. Such experiences are often transformed into valuable experiences through storytelling. Bad trip narratives may be a potent coping mechanism for users of psychedelics in non-controlled environments, enabling them to make sense of frightening experiences and integrate these into their life stories. Such narrative sense-making, or narrative work, facilitates the continued use of psychedelics, even after unpleasant experiences with the drugs.

• Fraser, Alistair & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). Bourdieu on the Block: Punishment, Policing and the Street. Criminology & Criminal Justice. ISSN 1748-8958. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This essay introduces the Special Issue 'Bourdieu on the Block: Punishment, Policing and the Street'. Although Bourdieu wrote comparatively little on criminological matters, references to Bourdieu's work have in the last decade gathered into a steady stream. There is a sense in which criminology, though something of a late-adopter, may be beginning to undergo its own 'Bourdieusian moment'. Notably, several of the contributions to this emergent discussion have taken place in the pages of this journal. Our intention in bringing them together is to take stock of the 'field of reception' into which Bourdieu's concepts have entered. We have selected articles that directly engage with Bourdieu, either embracing the framework or criticizing it, in something more than a throwaway reference. As represented in the papers, there are at least three tributaries that have pooled to form what we might term a putative Bourdieusian criminology: punishment, policing and the street. In recognizing the mutually constitutive role of structure, culture and agency in the wellspring of social action, Bourdieu creates a vocabulary for a systematic sociology of crime and criminalisation that bears further development and debate. Taken together, we believe these papers demonstrate not only the important role that Bourdieu has played in criminological research but also the potential to expand further. In order to clarify and develop these approaches, we suggest two future directions for the development of a Bourdieusian criminology.

• Ilan, Jonathan & Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). How 'gangsters' become jihadists: Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus. European Journal of Criminology. ISSN 1477-3708. 16(3), p. 278–294. doi: 10.1177/1477370819828936. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A background in ‘ordinary’ crime, violence and drug use seems to characterize many European individuals recently involved in ISIS-related jihadi violence. With its long tradition of studying marginalized populations and street culture, criminology offers novel ways to explore these developments theoretically. In this article, we demonstrate how Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capital, habitus and field allow for a nuanced analysis of how certain individuals move from street to politico-religious criminality. We show that ‘investments’ in street capital can be expended within the field of violent jihadism. We argue that an embodied street habitus supports continuities in attitudes and behaviours within different violent contexts, and furthermore that street social capital facilitates recruitment to violent jihadism. Finally, reflection is offered on resonances between street and jihadi fields. The article explains how continuities in lifestyle can exist between the European city and a Middle Eastern battleground.

• Andersen, Ditte & Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). 'Of course you like to fight': Frames for storytelling in a liberal anger management programme. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. 62(1), p. 96–109. doi: 10.1177/0001699317741946. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Previous research has critiqued conventional anger management programmes for disregarding participants’ values honouring masculine performances of being tough, risk-seeking and capable of violence. Conversely, the Danish programme subjected to case study in this paper, represents a liberal approach that endorses such values while still encouraging participants to reform their behaviour. We investigate this approach as a frame for participants’ storytelling, that is, narrative presentations of past, present and future selves. Detailed narrative analysis demonstrates the counsellor’s conveyance of a non-judgmental attitude, which indicates expectations that participants value practices such as fighting and using illegal drugs. We explain how the approach emerges as a gendered and classed frame which some participants may not align with, specifying how a participant who is unable or unwilling to adopt expectations may struggle to present as properly masculine. The study demonstrates that therapy which seeks to accommodate particular forms of masculinities may unintentionally marginalise some participants.

• Sandberg, Sveinung; Copes, Heith & Pedersen, Willy (2019). When peaceful people fight: Beyond neutralization and subcultural theory. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 59(6), p. 1309–1327. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azz032. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Fights are widespread in society, but for most people it happens once or twice and is not part of a consistent pattern or lifestyle. Using a narrative criminological framework, we study the stories of violence among people who otherwise seldom engage in violent behaviour. The young Norwegians we interviewed, emphasized that their fights emerged as a response to insults, was fuelled by drinking and could be exciting. Participants had negative evaluations of their fights, took the blame for them, talked down their importance and self-critically used humour to ridicule their involvement. Our study demonstrates the shortcomings of subcultural and neutralization theories when it comes to understanding violent behaviour among those who rarely engage in it.

• Fleetwood, Jennifer; Presser, Lois; Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (2019). Introduction. In Fleetwood, Jennifer; Presser, Lois; Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (Ed.), The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISSN 9781787690066. p. 1–26. doi: 10.1108/978-1-78769-005-920191006. Full text in Research Archive
• Vaynman, Margareth; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2019). 'Locker room talk': Male bonding and sexual degradation in drinking stories. Culture, Health and Sexuality. ISSN 1369-1058. 22(11), p. 1235–1252. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2019.1670864. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper explores alcohol-related sexual storytelling. In a qualitative study of more than 100 male participants in the night-time economy in Norway, many told animated and cheerful stories laced with erotic excitement. However, a minority of men also told sex stories characterised by aggressive, belittling and degrading language. We propose that this minority of men may employ such locker room talk to: (i) achieve male bonding and intimacy, (ii) explore ambiguous and confusing sexual experiences and/or (iii) excuse sexual events characterised by overt aggression. We draw on theories of masculinity and homosociality and a narrative framework and show that for some men, sexual relationships with women are strongly influenced by their relations with other men. We discuss how these stories reflect degrading attitudes towards women and how they produce and legitimise sexual violence.

• Raitanen, Jenni; Sandberg, Sveinung & Oksanen, Atte (2019). The Bullying-School Shooting Nexus: Bridging master narratives of mass violence with personal narratives of social exclusion. Deviant Behavior. ISSN 0163-9625. 40(1), p. 96–109. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2017.1411044. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study examines the narratives that people who are deeply interested in school shootings tell about school shootings and their interest in the subject. Data come from 22 qualitative online interviews with individuals from 12 countries across the world, and the study is based on a framework of narrative criminology. We find that the theme of bullying weaves together personal narratives and the master narrative of school shootings. We discuss how deep interest in school shootings does not equal a desire to commit a massacre; rather, the circulation and recreation of the bullying story can reinforce scripts about responding to bullying with mass violence. The final version of this research has been published in Deviant Behavior. © 2017 Taylor & Francis

• Møller, Kim & Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). Putting a Price on Drugs: An Economic Sociological Study of Price Formation in Illicit Drug Markets. Criminology (Beverly Hills). ISSN 0011-1384. 57(2), p. 289–313. doi: 10.1111/1745-9125.12202. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Prices in illegal drug markets are difficult to predict. Based on qualitative interviews with 68 incarcerated drug dealers in Norway, we explore dealers’ perspectives on fair prices and the processes that influence their pricing decisions. Synthesized through economic sociology, we draw on perspectives from traditions as different as behavioral economics and cultural analysis to demonstrate how participants in illicit drug distribution base their pricing decisions on institutional context, social networks, and drug market cultures. We find that dealers take institutional constraints into consideration and search for niches with high earnings and low risks. The use of transactions embedded in social networks promotes a trusting form of governance, which enables strategic network management and expedient distribution but also uncompetitive pricing. Finally, dealers’ pricing decisions are embedded in three different cultures narratives: business, friendship, and street cultural stories, with widely varying implications for prices. Our findings demonstrate how an economic sociology of illicit drug distribution can extend insights from behavioral economics and cultural studies into a coherent criminology of illegal drug markets.

• Mohamed, Idil Abdi Abdulle & Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). "Jeg kan ikke se søstre gå i den fella". Unge muslimer som forebyggere. In Lid, Stian & Heierstad, Geir (Ed.), Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme. Norske handlemåter i møtet med terror. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205518346. p. 199–222. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Risikoen for terrorangrep i Norge er stor. Det har skjedd før og vil høyst sannsynlig skje igjen. For å redusere terrortrusler og økt polarisering er store deler av det norske velferdssamfunnet involvert i forebygging. Lærere og politi, ansatte i NAV og PST, ungdomsarbeidere og trossamfunn – listen over sentrale aktører er lang. Samtidig er det stor usikkerhet knyttet til hva som kan utgjøre en trussel. I denne boka retter etablerte og nye forskere søkelyset mot hvordan norsk forebygging praktiseres. Hvem skal forebygge? Hva fungerer og hvorfor? Virker enkelte tiltak mot sin hensikt? Hvordan organiserer man best forebygging i en velferdsstat? Hva skal til for at mennesker forlater sin ekstremisme? Disse spørsmålene belyses gjennom erfaringer fra dem som skal iverksette forebyggende tiltak, og fra dem som er eller kan være i målgruppen for tiltakene. Det norske samfunnets ønske om å forebygge radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme er større enn evnen. Når velferdsaktører forlater sine roller som hjelpere og tilretteleggere og i stedet kontrollerer og sender bekymringsmeldinger, er veien kort til stigmatisering og ekskludering. To skritt fram under forebyggingsfanen blir fort minst ett skritt tilbake. Forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme gir viktige bidrag til den offentlige samtalen om hvordan man bør forstå og innrette forebyggingen. Målet med boka er å belyse og styrke forebyggingen av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme.

• Sandberg, Sveinung; Tutenges, Sébastien & Pedersen, Willy (2019). Drinking stories as a narrative genre: The five classic themes. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. 62(4), p. 406–419. doi: 10.1177/0001699319833142. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Drinking stories feature widely in Western societies. Many people eagerly share their stories in the aftermath of drinking events. These stories are also common in books, movies, music and the media. Based on qualitative interviews with 104 young Norwegian heavy episodic drinkers, the article seeks to establish drinking stories as a distinct narrative genre. We argue that this narrative genre of drinking stories comes from an oral storytelling tradition which uses transgressions to trigger interest, entertain, and challenge commonly held views. These transgressions typically come in the form of playful violations of conventions and common sense and tend to centre around five classic themes: sex, bodily harm, bodily fluids, lawbreaking and pranks. While often dismissed as trivial, vulgar and of little literary value, drinking stories are highly valued by many people and have significant consequences for how people experience drinking and behave while being drunk.

• Tutenges, Sébastien; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2019). Sexually violent effervescence: Understanding sexual assault among youth. Sexualities. ISSN 1363-4607. 23(3), p. 406–421. doi: 10.1177/1363460719830342. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Based on interviews with 104 young partygoers, this article examines sexual assaults that occur in the context of festive events. Focus is on how individuals describe their sexual victimization. Three experiential characteristics stand out in the victims’ accounts. First, the assaults are described as being characterized by an altered state of consciousness, primarily alcohol-related intoxication. Second, the assaults are described as involving a sense of losing control. Third, the assaults are described as antagonistic, with one side using force to achieve domination. Drawing on Durkheimian theory, the article introduces the sensitizing concept of ‘sexually violent effervescence’ to clarify how victims experience sexual assaults.

• Grundetjern, Heidi; Copes, Heith & Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). Dealing with fatherhood. Paternal identities among men in the illegal economy. European Journal of Criminology. ISSN 1477-3708. doi: 10.1177/1477370819874429. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). Narrative criminology as critical criminology. Critical Criminology. ISSN 1205-8629. 27(1), p. 131–143. doi: 10.1007/s10612-019-09437-9. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Narrative criminology is a theoretical paradigm rooted in a view of stories as influencing harmful actions and arrangements. Narrative criminologists explore the storied bases of a variety of harms and also consider the narratives with which actors resist patterns of harm. We submit that narrative criminology is an apt and powerful framework for research in critical criminology because narrative criminology is fundamentally concerned with harm or resistance to harm, underscores collective involvement in the genesis of harm, illuminates the dynamism of harm and therefore the possibilities of resistance, and compels a reflexive stance on one’s research. Stories are recounted at multiple levels of social life. They are self-consciously and habitually generated, structured and creative, populated by things said and things not said. The complexities of stories are a good match for the complexities of crime, harm and justice in late modernity—core concerns of critical criminology.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Andersen, Jan Christoffer (2019). Opposing violent extremism through counternarratives: Four forms of narrative resistance. In Fleetwood, Jennifer; Presser, Lois; Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (Ed.), The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISSN 9781787690066. p. 445–466. doi: 10.1108/978-1-78769-005-920191036. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Following recent terrorist attacks in the US and Europe, Western Muslims have been criticised for not taking a firm stand against radical Islam and extremist organisations. Drawing on insights from narrative criminology, we challenge such assertions and reveal Muslims' narrative mobilisation against violent jihadism. Based on 90 qualitative interviews with young Muslims in Norway, we show how violent extremism is rejected in a multitude of ways. This narrative resistance includes criticising extremist jihadist organisations for false interpretations of Islam and using derogatory terms to describe them. It also includes less obvious forms of narrative resistance, such as humour and attempts to silence jihadist organisations by ignoring them. While narrative criminology has effectively analysed the stories that constitute harm, less attention has been paid to narratives that counter harm. We argue that stories that counter jihadi narratives are crucial to understand the narrative struggles of Muslim communities, whose outcomes can help determine why some individuals end up becoming religious extremists – while others do not. By distinguishing between factual, emotional and humorous counternarratives and describing silence as a form of resistance, we show resistance to extremism that is often concealed from the public and the state.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Narrativ kriminologi - tematisk, strukturel, performativ og dialogisk analyse. In Jacobsen, Michael Hviid (Eds.), Metoder i kriminologi. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 9788741270173. p. 233–260. Full text in Research Archive
• Bakken, Silje Anderdal; Moeller, Kim & Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Coordination problems in cryptomarkets: Changes in cooperation, competition and valuation. European Journal of Criminology. ISSN 1477-3708. 15(4), p. 442–460. doi: 10.1177/1477370817749177. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The new drug markets emerging on the dark net have reduced earlier drug market risk factors such as visibility and violence. This study uses economic sociology and transaction cost economics to broaden the present understanding of cryptomarkets. Results focus on three coordination problems characterizing illegal markets and how they are alleviated in cryptomarkets. More information and better visibility increase competition, the feedback system enforces cooperation and border control introduces a new cost influencing valuation. Cryptomarkets are formally structured and regulated by rules of conduct and centralized decisions. We argue that the online context circumvents earlier coordination problems in illegal markets, making dark net markets more structurally efficient compared with conventional drug markets.

• Andersen, Jan Christoffer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Islamic State Propaganda: Between social movement framing and subcultural provocation. Terrorism and Political Violence. ISSN 0954-6553. 32(7), p. 1506–1526. doi: 10.1080/09546553.2018.1484356. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Islamic State (IS) has become notorious for violent, brutal actions and the presentation of these actions in social and mainstream media. Excessive violence creates a spectacle for the news media. However, IS propaganda also emphasizes its role in state building and its engagement in social and welfare work. This twofold propaganda enables the mobilization of different audiences, but it also sends conflicting messages about the organization. In this article, we study the e-magazine Dabiq, emphasizing its methods of gaining support and attempting to recruit Western participants to violent jihadism. We use theories of social movement and subculture to reveal some of the underlying tensions in IS’s communicative strategies. The analysis first identifies how IS frames its propaganda, attempting to mobilize widespread support. Then, it highlights another dimension of IS’s rhetoric: provocations, the creation of sensationalist spectacles of violence and links to excitement seeking, stardom, and popular culture. We conclude that combining general anti-Western rhetoric and religious imagery with extraordinary depictions of violence has been both a strength and flaw in the organization’s propaganda.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Tutenges, Sébastien (2018). Laughter in Stories of Crime and Tragedy: The Importance of Humor for Marginalized Populations. Social problems. ISSN 0037-7791. 66(4), p. 564–579. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spy019. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Jennifer, Fleetwood (2017). Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory. Criminology & Criminal Justice. ISSN 1748-8958. 17(4), p. 365–381. doi: 10.1177/1748895816672909. Full text in Research Archive
• Pedersen, Willy; Tutenges, Sébastien & Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). The pleasures of drunken one-night stands: Assemblage theory and narrative environments. International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 49, p. 160–167. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.08.005. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background: In this study, we use assemblage theory to investigate the link between alcohol use and one-night stands. Methods: The data come from qualitative interviews conducted with 104 young participants in the night-time economy. Results: We show that: (i) alcohol-fuelled sexual explorations (e.g. erotic fantasizing, flirting and sex) are of paramount importance for young partygoers; (ii) sexualized territories (e.g. private parties, rural feasts and the backseat of cars) significantly shape the experience and performance of one-night stands; and (iii) contrary to previous research, one-night stands are to a large degree associated with pleasure—the immediate pleasure of having sex and the long-term pleasure of telling about it to others. Conclusion: We argue that drunken one-night stands are part and parcel of a drinking culture that places high value on sexual encounters and personal sex stories.

• Edland-Gryt, Marit; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2017). From ecstasy to MDMA: Recreational drug use, symbolic boundaries and drug trends. International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 50. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.07.030. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background Ecstasy pills with MDMA as the main ingredient were introduced in many European countries in the 1980s, and were often linked to the rave and club scenes. However, use gradually levelled off, in part as a response to increased concerns about possible mental health consequences and fatalities. Extensive use of MDMA now seems to be re-emerging in many countries. In this study, we investigated the cultural and social meaning associated with MDMA use in Oslo, Norway, with an emphasis on how users distinguish MDMA crystals and powder from “old ecstasy pills”. Methods Qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 31, 61,3% males) were conducted with young adult party-goers and recreational MDMA/ecstasy users (20–34 years old, mean age 26.2 years). Results Research participants emphasised three important perceived differences between the MDMA crystals and ecstasy pills: (i) The effects of MDMA were described as better than ecstasy; (ii) MDMA was regarded as a safer drug; (iii) Users of MDMA crystals were described as more distinct from and less anchored in out-of-fashion rave culture than those using ecstasy. These differences were an important part of the symbolic boundary work MDMA users engaged in when justifying their drug use. Conclusion MDMA has re-emerged as an important psychoactive substance in Oslo’s club scene. One important reason for this re-emergence seems to be its perceived differentiation from ecstasy pills, even though the active ingredient in both drugs is MDMA. This perceived distinction between MDMA and ecstasy reveals the importance of social and symbolic meanings in relation to psychoactive substance use. Insights from this study can be important in terms of understanding how trends in drug use develop and how certain drugs gain or lose popularity.

• Sandberg, Sveinung & Skjælaaen, Øystein (2017). "Shoes on your hands": perceptions of alcohol among young adolescents in Norway. Drugs: education prevention and policy. ISSN 0968-7637. 25(6), p. 449–456. doi: 10.1080/09687637.2017.1335690. Full text in Research Archive
• Bakken, Silje Anderdal; Sandøy, Thomas Anton & Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Social identity and alcohol in young adolescence: the perceived difference between youthful and adult drinking. Journal of Youth Studies. ISSN 1367-6261. 20(10), p. 1380–1395. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2017.1333585. Full text in Research Archive
• Møller, Kim & Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Debts and Threats: Managing Inability to Repay Credits in Illicit Drug Distribution. Justice quarterly. ISSN 0741-8825. 34(2), p. 272–296. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2016.1162321. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study examines how creditors in illicit drug markets manage debtors’ inability to repay “fronted” drugs. Based on qualitative interviews with 40 incarcerated drug dealers in Norway, we explore four outcomes of unpaid drug debts. Two modes of governance dominated the credit reciprocation processes: Cooperative governance included strategies of accepting loss and refinancing debt and required mutual trust between creditor and debtor. Adversarial governance included extortion of debtors and revenge and was based on threats of violence. We found that creditors preferred refinancing debt or extorting debtors over accepting loss or using violence. We argue that the negotiated outcomes of drug debt have been neglected in research on drug markets, and explore how they require investment from the creditor, either in building trust or in deterring malfeasance through threats of violence. Using insights from economic sociology, the study highlights the importance of social control in illegal drug markets. The final version of this research has been published in Justice Quarterly. © 2017 Taylor & Francis

• Bakken, Silje; Møller, Kim & Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Coordination problems in dark net drug markets: Changes in cooperation, competition and valuation. European Journal of Criminology. ISSN 1477-3708. doi: 10.1177/1477370817749177. Full text in Research Archive
• Pedersen, Willy; Sandberg, Sveinung & Copes, Heith (2017). Destruction, fascination and illness: risk perceptions and uses of heroin and opiate maintenance treatment drugs. Health, Risk and Society. ISSN 1369-8575. 19(1-2), p. 74–90. doi: 10.1080/13698575.2016.1256377. Full text in Research Archive
• Pedersen, Willy; Copes, Heith & Sandberg, Sveinung (2016). Alcohol and violence in nightlife and party settings: a qualitative study. Drug and Alcohol Review. ISSN 0959-5236. 35(5), p. 557–563. doi: 10.1111/dar.12395. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract Introduction and AimsIn binge drinking' cultures, there is a strong association between alcohol consumption and violence. At the same time, several studies suggest that this link is cultural and contextual. We explore the role of alcohol in incidents of violence in nightlife settings. Design and MethodsWe used qualitative interviews with 104 Norwegians (52 men and 52 women, mean age 25years) who binge drink and party in nightlife settings. ResultsAlcohol both sparks and constrains violence in these contexts. When participants use alcohol, they expect conflicts to occur and blame alcohol intoxication for such behaviour. The packed settings of nightlife and parties combined with the effects of alcohol can induce violence through personal affronts, heightened emotions and jealousy. At the same time, nightlife settings constrain violence. That is, binge drinkers excuse misbehaviour when it is attributed to alcohol. In addition, audiences in these setting often go to great lengths to stop fights. Combined, these factors help explain why violence occurs and why it usually does not escalate. Discussion and ConclusionsThe association between alcohol and violence can be understood by more closely examining the cultural and situational context where the events occur. This link is not primarily related to the psychopharmacological properties of alcohol, but rather it is associated with situational factors and cultural norms regarding how to behave while intoxicated. Strategies aiming at reducing violence in nightlife should take such factors into consideration. [Pedersen W, Copes H, Sandberg S. Alcohol and violence in nightlife and party settings: A qualitative study. Drug Alcohol Rev 2016;35:557-563]

• Copes, Heith; Richard, Tewksbury & Sandberg, Sveinung (2016). Publishing Qualitative Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals. Journal of Criminal Justice Education. ISSN 1051-1253. 27(1), p. 121–139. doi: 10.1080/10511253.2015.1109131. Full text in Research Archive
• Fjær, Eivind Grip; Pedersen, Willy & Sandberg, Sveinung (2016). Party on wheels: mobile party spaces in the Norwegian high school graduation celebration. British Journal of Sociology. ISSN 0007-1315. 67(2), p. 328–347. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12189. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (2016). The past, present, and future of narrative criminology: An appraisal and an invitation. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. ISSN 1741-6590. 12(2), p. 129–136. doi: 10.1177/1741659016663558. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (2016). Why do offenders tape their crimes? Crime and punishment in the age of the selfie. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 57(5), p. 1023–1040. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azw056. Full text in Research Archive
• Shammas, Victor Lund & Sandberg, Sveinung (2016). Habitus, capital, and conflict: Bringing Bourdieusian field theory to criminology. Criminology & Criminal Justice. ISSN 1748-8958. 16(2), p. 195–213. doi: 10.1177/1748895815603774. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2016). The importance of stories untold: Life-story, event-story and trope. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. ISSN 1741-6590. 12(2), p. 153–171. doi: 10.1177/1741659016639355. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Terrorism as Cultural Bricolage: The case of Anders Behring Breivik. In Ziegler, Daniel; Gerster, Marco & Steffen, Krämer (Ed.), Framing Excessive Violence: Discourse and Dynamics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9781137514424. p. 177–196. doi: 10.1057/9781137514431_10. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Conclusion: Where to now? In Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (Ed.), Narrative Criminology. Understanding Stories of Crime. New York University Press. ISSN 9781479876778. p. 287–300. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Tutenges, Sébastien (2015). Meeting the Djinn: Stories of drug use, bad trips, and addiction. In Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (Ed.), Narrative Criminology. Understanding Stories of Crime. New York University Press. ISSN 9781479876778. p. 150–173. doi: 10.18574/nyu/9781479876778.003.0007. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Research Strategies for Narrative Criminology. In Miller, Jody & Palacios, Wilson R (Ed.), Qualitative Research In Criminology. Advances in Criminological Theory vol. 20. Transaction Publishers. ISSN 9781412856775. p. 85–100. doi: 10.4324/9781315127880-6. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Introduction: What is the story? In Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (Ed.), Narrative Criminology. Understanding Stories of Crime. New York University Press. ISSN 9781479876778. p. 1–22. Full text in Research Archive
• Pedersen, Willy; Sandberg, Sveinung & Copes, Heith (2015). High Speed: Amphetamine Use in the Context of Conventional Culture. Deviant Behavior. ISSN 0163-9625. 36(2), p. 146–165. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2014.923272. Full text in Research Archive
• Dahl, Silje Louise & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Female Cannabis Users and New Masculinities: The Gendering of Cannabis Use. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385. 49(4), p. 696–711. doi: 10.1177/0038038514547896. Full text in Research Archive
• Fjær, Eivind Grip; Pedersen, Willy & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). “I’m Not One of Those Girls”: Boundary-Work and the Sexual Double Standard in a Liberal Hookup Context. Gender & Society. ISSN 0891-2432. 29(6), p. 960–981. doi: 10.1177/0891243215602107. Full text in Research Archive
• Copes, Heith; Hochstetler, Andy & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Using a Narrative Framework to Understand the Drugs and Violence Nexus. Criminal Justice Review. ISSN 0734-0168. 40(1), p. 32–46. doi: 10.1177/0734016814560436. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Tutenges, Sébastien & Copes, Heith (2015). Stories of Violence: A narrative criminological study of ambiguity. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 55(6), p. 1168–1186. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azv032. Full text in Research Archive
• Møller, Kim & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Credit and Trust: Management of Network Ties in Illicit Drug Distribution. Journal of research in crime and delinquency. ISSN 0022-4278. 52(5), p. 691–716. doi: 10.1177/0022427815583912. Full text in Research Archive
• Holm, Søren; Sandberg, Sveinung; Kolind, Torsten & Hesse, Morten (2014). The importance of cannabis culture in young adult cannabis use. Journal of Substance Use. ISSN 1465-9891. 19(3), p. 251–256. doi: 10.3109/14659891.2013.790493. Full text in Research Archive
• Berntzen, Lars Erik & Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). The collective nature of lone-wolf terrorism. Anders Behring Breivik and the anti-Islamic movement. Terrorism and Political Violence. ISSN 0954-6553. 26(5), p. 759–779. doi: 10.1080/09546553.2013.767245. Full text in Research Archive
• Berntzen, Lars Erik & Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Stories in action: the cultural influences of school shootings on the terrorist attacks in Norway. Critical Studies on Terrorism. ISSN 1753-9153. 7(2), p. 277–296. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2014.906984. Full text in Research Archive
• Tutenges, Sébastien & Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Bad boys telling sexist stories? International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 25(3), p. 348–349. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.03.013. Full text in Research Archive
• Shammas, Victor Lund; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2014). Trajectories to mid- and higher-level drug crimes: Penal misrepresentations of drug dealers in Norway. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 54(4), p. 592–612. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu017. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Oksanen, Atte; Berntzen, Lars Erik & Kiilakoski, Tomi (2014). Stories in action: the cultural influences of school shootings on the terrorist attacks in Norway. Critical Studies on Terrorism. ISSN 1753-9153. 7(2), p. 277–296. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2014.906984. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Race, politics, and street capital in Norway. In Sandra, Bucerius & Michael, Tonry (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199859016. p. 408–429. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2013). Are self-narratives strategic or determined, unified or fragmented? Reading Breivik's Manifesto in light of narrative criminology. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. 56(1), p. 69–83. doi: 10.1177/0001699312466179. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Copes, Heith (2013). Speaking with ethnographers: The challenges of researching drug dealers and offenders. Journal of Drug Issues (JDI). ISSN 0022-0426. 43(2), p. 176–197. doi: 10.1177/0022042612465275. Full text in Research Archive
• Tutenges, Sébastien & Sandberg, Sveinung (2013). Intoxicating Stories: The characteristics, contexts and implications of drinking stories among Danish youth. International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 24(6), p. 538–544. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.03.011. Full text in Research Archive
• Grundetjern, Heidi & Sandberg, Sveinung (2013). Drugsdealers, gender en straatkapitaal. Justitiele verkenningen. ISSN 0167-5850. 39(5), p. 25–43. Full text in Research Archive
• Pedersen, Willy & Sandberg, Sveinung (2013). The medicalisation of revolt: a sociological analysis of medical cannabis users. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN 0141-9889. 35(1), p. 17–32. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01476.x. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2013). Cannabis culture: A stable subculture in a changing world. Criminology & Criminal Justice. ISSN 1748-8958. 13(1), p. 63–79. doi: 10.1177/1748895812445620. Full text in Research Archive
• Grundetjern, Heidi & Sandberg, Sveinung (2012). Dealing with a gendered economy: Female drug dealers and street capital. European Journal of Criminology. ISSN 1477-3708. 9(6), p. 621–635. doi: 10.1177/1477370812453103. Full text in Research Archive
• Hammersvik, Eirik; Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2012). Why small-scale cannabis growers stay small: Five mechanisms that prevent small-scale growers from going large scale. International journal of drug policy. ISSN 0955-3959. 23(6), p. 458–464. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.08.001. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2012). Cannabis, kultur, marked: Er hasjsalg business, kriminalitet eller vennetjenester? In Dahl, Helle Vibeke & Frank, Vibeke Asmussen (Ed.), Cannabis. Forbrug, interventioner og marked i Danmark. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788771240368. p. 129–147. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2012). The Importance of Culture for Cannabis Markets Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegal Drug Markets. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 52(6), p. 1133–1151. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azs031. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2012). Is cannabis use normalized, celebrated or neutralized? Analysing talk as action. Addiction Research and Theory. ISSN 1606-6359. 20(5), p. 372–381. doi: 10.3109/16066359.2011.638147. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2011). What can lies tell us about life? Notes towards a framework of narrative criminology. In Copes, Heith (Eds.), Advancing Qualitative Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Taylor & Francis. ISSN 9780415783118. doi: 10.1080/10511253.2010.516564. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2010). What can "lies" tell us about life. Notes towards a framework of narrative criminology. Journal of Criminal Justice Education. ISSN 1051-1253. 21(4), p. 447–465. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2010). The sweet taste of sin - A Muslim drug dealer in a Nordic welfare state. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. ISSN 1404-3858. 11, p. 103–118. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2010). Utbredt men annerledes. Cannabiskultur og normalisering av hasj i Norge. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS). ISSN 0040-716X. 51(4), p. 495–524. Full text in Research Archive

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• Presser, Lois; Fleetwood, Jennifer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Narrating Justice and Hope. How Good Stories Counter Crime and Harm. New York University Press. ISBN 9781479824496. 280 p. doi: https:/nyupress.org/9781479824502/narrating-justice-and-hope/. Full text in Research Archive
• Wanke, Michał; Sandberg, Sveinung; Macit, Ruken & Gulerce, Hakan (2024). Cannabis: Cultures and Markets. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781003468967. 136 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Fleetwood, Jennifer; Presser, Lois; Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (2019). The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781787690066. 569 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Andersen, Jan Christoffer; Gasser, Tiffany Linn Utvær; Linge, Marius; Mohamed, Idil Abdi Abdulle & Shokr, Samah [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). Unge muslimske stemmer: Om tro og ekstremisme. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215031262. 280 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  De som kommer til orde i denne boka er den moderate majoriteten av unge norske muslimer. De reflekterer om deres personlige tro, religiøse praksis, gruppetilhørigheter og særlig om synet de har på ekstreme bevegelser. Slik får vi en rikere forståelse av den motstanden mot jihadisme som er vanlig norske muslimer - omfanget, styrken, grunnene og engasjementet. Boka tar samtidig for seg at det er store forskjeller blant «vanlige» muslimer når det gjelder fortolkninger av islam, og at det er kamp mellom moderate og mer ekstreme strømninger om definisjonene av grunnleggende begreper og fortellinger. En rød tråd i boka er at det ikke nødvendigvis er politiet, kommunene eller andre offentlige instanser som er frontlinjen for bekjempelse av ekstremisme. Voldelig jihadisme bekjempes daglig i muslimske miljøer, og en viktig del av dette er kampen mellom forskjellige fortolkninger av islam.

• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Narrative Criminology. Understanding Stories of Crime. New York University Press. ISBN 9781479876778. 318 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Pedersen, Willy (2010). Cannabiskultur. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215017716. 256 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Crime in Latin America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Rett til kaffen: Kriminalitet i Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
• Ugelvik, Thomas & Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Sveinung Sandberg interviewed by Thomas Ugelvik. [Internet]. Youtube. doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTTHiM3lDYo. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Musikkens Rolle - På gata i Oslo og i fengsel i Latin-Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). Narrative Criminology: What good can stories do. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2025). CRIMLA - Crime in Latin America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Narrative criminology and Life Course Criminology (my lectures). Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Kriminelle vennskap. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). CRIMLA: Crime in Latin America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Author meets author. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Towards a culturally sensitive life-course criminology of Latin America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Crime in Latin America: Life-courses and life-stories. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Ungdomskriminaltiet. Tre enkle løsninger og en litt vanskeligere. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Turning points to crime in Latin America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Crime in Latin America: Life stories, magical belief and art. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2024). Narrative analysis workshop. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Marco, Martin Hernan Di; Goyes, David & Skardhamar, Torbjørn (2024). CRIMLA. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. doi: 10.1177/13624806231217818. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Hvordan stoppe narkosalget på Grønland? Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Gatekultur og «svenske tilstander»: Tre enkle løsninger og en litt vanskeligere. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Goyes, David Rodriguez (2023). Towards a life course criminology of Latin America: The Role of the state, labour market, and family in criminal trajectories. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). ASC Workshop: Conducting Qualitative Research within Criminal Justice Settings: Theoretical and Pragmatic Challenges. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Protecting Parents, Idealizing the Past, Blaming Friends: Life Stories of Men Imprisoned for Violence. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Life-stories emerge from a wide variety of facts and events in a person’s life and weave a selected few of these together to make meaning in the present. They are crucial for constructing identity and influence action by establishing worldviews and a persona that the narrator will seek to confirm. Based on interviews with six incarcerated Argentinian men, we describe three main themes in these stories: a) Protecting family, especially parents; b) reconstructing an ideal past, and contrasting it with a more cynical present; and c) blaming criminal neighborhoods, friends and girlfriends for their crimes. Combining insights from narrative and psychosocial criminology, we discuss how these themes are intertwined, what function they fulfill, and the identities and masculinities they produce. We emphasize how these life-stories create coherence and unity in otherwise chaotic lives and attempt to counter stigma by defending a self that is under attack.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). What Good Can Stories Do? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Most stories are not inherently "good" or "bad." They are open-ended, ambiguous and shaped by the context(s) in which they are told. In the social sciences and, in particular, those with research traditions emphasizing social problems, the emphasis has tended to be--for good reasons--on those stories that promote crime and other harm. We take a different approach, emphasizing the good that stories do, primarily for storytellers and their audiences. Based on the stories of Abdi, a former gang member, and stories shared during our research of the past 20 years, we describe how stories do "good" in environments usually associated with "bad." Stories were used to cope with past trauma, create positive experiences in the present moment, encourage harm reduction, and point toward better futures. We conclude that there are good reasons to further emphasize the good that stories can do, for everyone, but not least for marginalized populations.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Narrativ kriminologi, gatekapital, narco-corridos og Michel Foucault. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Towards a life course criminology of Latin America: The role of the State, labour market, and family in criminal trajectories. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Book Review: Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century by Darke, S., Garces, C., Duno-Gottberg, L., & Antillano, A.; Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Sozzo, M. Punishment and Society. doi: 10.1177/14624745231175775. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Dette er "soundtracket" til kriminelle karrierer. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Narrative analysis (with examples from Latin America) workshop. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Narrative data. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2023). Hvordan stoppe narkosalget på Grønland. Full text in Research Archive
• Hol, Maud & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Datainnsamling i syv land i Latin-Amerika. [Internet]. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Marco, Martin Hernan Di; Sandberg, Sveinung & Collado, Liza Zúñiga (2022). Narrative approach in Criminology: CRIMLA. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Everyday Prevention of Radicalization: The Impacts of Family, Peer, and Police Intervention. Full text in Research Archive
• Goyes, David Rodriguez & Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Crime in Latin America: The role of the family, employment, culture and the state. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Since the early 1990s, there has been a significant growth of criminal activity in Latin America and the security situation for most citizens has worsened. States that are already weak and unstable democracies have been further destabilized and weakened, due to this rise in crime. Even so, there has been relatively little research on crime in Latin America, as compared to many other parts of the world. By developing a culturally and contextually sensitive life-course criminology of Latin America, the newly started project CRIMLA aims to understand the role of family, employment, culture and the state in criminal trajectories and careers in the region. Combining criminological theory, with institutional, cultural and narrative studies, CRIMLA explores the overall research question ‘What is the best way to theorize and understand the criminal careers and life-course trajectories of Latin American offenders? Data are life-story interviews with 300 prisoners (interviewed three times each, 900 interviews) in six Latin American countries: Mexico, Honduras, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The presentation will focus on early findings from the project especially regarding the role of the State, the labor market, family and religion for the life-course trajectories and criminal careers of incarcerated individuals in Latin America.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Art and magical beliefs in life stories of Latin-American prisoners. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Life stories, magical beliefs and art in Latin-America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Studying hard to reach populations. From the streets of Oslo to prisons in Latin America. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Kriminalitet i Latin Amerika. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). The counternarratives of imprisoned bodies. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Narrativ kriminologi i Latin Amerika: hvilken rolle spiller religion, kunst og musikk? Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). CRIMLA and Narrative Criminology. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). CRIMLA: The role of family, employment, culture, and the state. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2022). Going deep, going broad – is it possible? Early experiences from CRIMLA. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Interrupting radicalization: The impact of family and peer-based vs. police-based intervention. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Interrupting radicalization: The impacts of family, peer and police intervention. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Black Lives Matter: The role of emotions for mobilization and demobilization. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the spring of 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests shook the world. Spreading from the US, demonstrations diffused globally, especially to Europe, calling out all kinds of racism, particularly structural racism and that emanating from the police. Emotions ran high and were pivotal in igniting protests. The role of emotion in social movements has received renewed scholarly attention during the last two decades. It plays an important role at every stage of protest, but few studies have traced its part in individuals’ mobilization and demobilization over time. This study examines the role of emotion in trajectories of engagement and disengagement during the global wave of BLM protests. Based on retrospective in-depth interviews with 38 participants in BLM demonstrations in Norway, we identify the role of emotion before, during and after their participation. Our findings help explain how individual patterns of participation develop in the course of a wave of protest, and also provide insights into the consequences of the recent BLM protests in Europe.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). MuslimVoices: Good practice exchange. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2021). Black Lives Matter: The role of emotions for mobilization and demobilization. Full text in Research Archive
• Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). A repertoire of everyday resistance: How young Muslims' respond to anti-Muslim hostility. Full text in Research Archive
• Banafsheh, Azin; Ellefsen, Rune & Sandberg, Sveinung (2020). Hvordan møter muslimer religiøs hets? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Muslimfiendtlige holdninger og hets er utbredt i Norge, men hva vet vi om muslimers reaksjoner? Vår studie viser at muslimers måter å respondere på hets på kan beskytte deres egenverd og religiøse identitet. Det kan også begrense virkningen av hets.

• Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). Everyday Islam and violent extremism: Counter narratives and public sociology. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). Team ethnography and public criminology. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2019). Street-jihadi nexus. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Andersen, Jan Christoffer & Linge, Marius (2018). Boklansering Unge muslimske stemmer. Om tro og ekstremisme. Full text in Research Archive
• Linge, Marius; Shokr, Samah; Mohamed, Idil Abdi Abdulle; Gasser, Tiffany Linn Utvær; Andersen, Jan Christoffer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Jihad - det er jackpot for dem. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Linge, Marius; Andersen, Jan Christoffer; Mohamed, Idil Abdi Abdulle; Shokr, Samah & Gasser, Tiffany Linn Utvær (2018). Jihadism, faith and everyday resistance. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Gammel gatekultur møter en ny jihadi cool. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Gatekultur, radikalisering og motstand. Full text in Research Archive
• Linge, Marius; Shokr, Samah; Mohamed, Idil Abdi Abdulle; Gasser, Tiffany Linn Utvær; Andersen, Jan Christoffer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Jihad - det er jackpot for dem. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). How ‘gangsters’ become jihadists (and why most don’t): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Changes in Street Culture: The new role of religion. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). How 'gangsters' become jihadists (and why most don't): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung; Andersen, Jan Christoffer; Gasser, Tiffany Linn Utvær; Mohamed, Idil Abdi Abdulle & Linge, Marius (2018). Unge muslimske stemmer. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Unge Muslimske Stemmer: Om tro og ekstremisme. Full text in Research Archive
• Andersen, Jan Christoffer & Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Unge norske muslimer driver «hverdagsmotstand» mot ekstremisme. Aftenposten Viten. ISSN 2464-3033. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2018). Innledning førpremiere for prosjektet MuslimVoices. Full text in Research Archive
• Hatavara, Mari; Sandberg, Sveinung & Barnwell, Ashley (2018). Theorising the relation between narrative and social action. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). The street-jihadi nexus. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Gatekultur og Jihadisme. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Narrative criminology, The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge. ISSN 9781138819009. p. 325–328. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Jonathan Ilan: Understanding Street Culture. Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. ISSN 1741-6590. 13(1), p. 17–19. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2017). Viggo Vestel: I gråsonen. Ungdom og politisk ekstremisme i det nye Norge. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. 1(1), p. 87–90. doi: 10.18261/issn.2535-2512-2017-01-06. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Ugelvik, Thomas (2017). Kriminell selfiekultur: Ydmykelse blir brukt som underholdning. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Alistair Fraser: Urban legends: gang identity in the post-industrial city. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azv110. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Sandra Bucerius: Unwanted – Muslim immigrants, dignity, and drug dealing. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 19, p. 597–600. doi: 10.1177/1362480615580747. Full text in Research Archive
• Shammas, Victor Lund & Sandberg, Sveinung (2015). Taking Bourdieu to the streets: On the advantages of field theory for street capital studies. Full text in Research Archive
• Presser, Lois & Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Narrative Criminology for These Times. 75, p. 7–10. Full text in Research Archive
• Berntzen, Lars Erik & Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Anti-islamisme, høyreekstremisme og vold. NRK Ytring. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung & Berntzen, Lars Erik (2014). Var Utøya egentlig en skolemassakre? Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Simon Hallsworth, The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. 16(5), p. 598–600. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2014). Stephen Parkin, Habitus and Drug Using Environments. Health, Place and Lived-experiences. British Journal of Criminology. ISSN 0007-0955. 54(5), p. 975–978. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2011). Anmeldelse av Philip Lalander's "Respekt". Rus & samfunn. ISSN 1500-8614. 5(1), p. 48–50. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandberg, Sveinung (2010). From the underground. Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. 22(1), p. 44–50. Full text in Research Archive

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