Debates about artificial intelligence are debates about ourselves, says Mareile Kaufmann. It’s important that we do not lose track of our own position in this fast-moving discourse.
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The University of Oslo has received funding from the Research Council of Norway to identify and understand scenarios for a less connected future where nation-states increasingly protect their borders and fight international institutions and their legal standards.
– This will support and strengthen Socio-legal research in Norway, according to Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Peter Scharff Smith, the leaders of the project.
When Anders Behring Breivik was imprisoned a few days after the terrorist attacks on 22 July 2011, it was a completely new situation for the Norwegian correctional service. Staff had to adapt to an “extraordinary critical situation” in which the core values of the correctional service were also threatened.
Maja Janmyr has worked together with a team of creatives to turn her research on Sudanese refugees in Beirut into a research comic.
Mareile Kaufmann is referred to as the creator of the research field Digital Criminology. New digital tools and methods lead to new questions. How much dataveillance should we allow?
Erik Nadheim has analysed documents from the government and the Norwegian Parliament from 1990 until today. In these he found broken political promises and a lack of interest in crime victims' legal security.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Putin. But is it possible to punish Putin for the misdeeds committed in Ukraine?
Sveinung Sandberg and his colleagues are conducting a research project on the role that family, employment, culture and the state play in criminal life-courses. 20 researchers have been conducting 1200 interviews involving prison inmates in Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia.
Through interviews with non-citizen women illegalized in Norway and Denmark, Dorina Damsa explores tensions concerning issues of citizenship, punishment and welfare.
According to Eurostat statistics, close to half a million third-country nationals are ordered every year to leave the EU and Schengen areas. Those who do not comply with an order to leave within the period granted to them, and those who are not given an option to leave on their own, are required to be removed by the authorities of the host state.
Law enforcement and jurisprudence are only some of many societal sectors that are increasingly digitized. It is high time we realize that data influence how individuals come to exist in digitized societies. The role of protection, then, becomes ever more salient.
What can children’s experience with secrets tell us about surveillance?
Do you want to participate in our research about incels and involuntary celibacy?
Maja Janmyr receives UiO Award for Young Researchers.
There were 2,363 applications submitted to the Research Council of Norway before the deadline of 25 May, of which 541 were submitted to the Young Research Talent programme. Only about 8% of applications received an offer. One of the successful projects was developed by Kjersti Lohne.
We are no longer using data services, but data services are using us. More so, internet companies advance into the intimate cores of ourselves, our homes, emotions, childhood, biology, excitement, empathy, curiosity, disease, our unconsciousness.
DNA analysis has become a standard procedure in most police forces. Not only that - the techniques for producing forensic evidence have moved from test tubes, gel and dots on the screen to complex algorithms and biotechnologies that process biological information digitally. What happened during this shift? Mareile Kaufmann received a grant from the European Research Council to find answers.
In reality many of the relatives of prisoners are also subjected to harsh penalties by the State. Innocent people, who do not deserve to be punished, but who nevertheless live in the shadow of a prison. Why have we chosen a penal system which impacts so harshly on families?
- In the last few years, sexual violence and exploitation have been firmly placed on European political agendas and public debates.
Life-changing events happen to migrants on the road to Europe. Some migrants die trying to enter, whereas others are born migrants. How do migrants - and their researchers - account for such experiences?
Romanians and Roma report experiences of racism and discrimination in Norwegian prisons. They often claim that they are not provided opportunities to which they have a rightful claim.
In the efforts to create international justice, it is unclear for whom justice is intended.
Even though the likelihood of receiving asylum is slim, many Nigerians choose to go to Europe. Their motivation to leave, and authorities´ attempts to stop them are some of the issues Professor May-Len Skilbrei will investigate in the MIGMA research project.
Transnational police work requires police officers to be able to handle both cultural and social differences internal to the organization. This proves challenging, research shows.
Stories about drug use strengthen a sense of unity and shape identity.