About
I am a legal sociologist, and have previously worked at the Norwegian Police University College and in the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Families. I am particularly interested in topics related to crime prevention and standardized tools and methods within individual-oriented crime prevention.
My research interests include:
- Sociology of professions
- Structured professional assessments and standardization of work methods
- Discretion
- Deviance and social control
- Crime prevention, especially person-oriented crimeprevention work (social crime/community crime prevention)
- Use of risk and protective factors in preventive work
- Police culture and police officers' attitudes towards tools
- Intelligence-led policing and evidence-based policing
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Standardized methods and assessments in the police's crime prevention work
In this project, I study the police's methodology in what is known as person-oriented prevention.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Gundhus, Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen;
Skjevrak, Pernille Erichsen
;
Wathne, Christin Thea
(2025).
Negotiating digital traces. The epistemic power of recorded police data.
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies.
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.5324/njsts.v13i1.5872
Skjevrak, Pernille Erichsen
; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen
(2025).
From personal archives to intelligence: visibility and ignorance in forecasting “youth at risk”.
Galis, Vasilis; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Vradis, Antonis (Ed.).
Critical Perspectives on Predictive Policing - Anticipating Proof?. p. 63-83.
Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035323036.00009
Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen;
Skjevrak, Pernille
;
Wathne, Christin
(2023).
We Will Always Be Better Than a Spreadsheet: Intelligence Logic and Crime Prevention in Practice.
European Journal of Policing Studies.
https://doi.org/10.5553/EJPS/2034760X2022001009
Dahl, Johanne Yttri; Fyfe, Nicholas R.; Gundhus, Helene Ingebrigtsen; Larsson, Paul;
Skjevrak, Pernille
; Runhovde, Siv Rebekka; Vestby, Annette
(2021).
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue - Shifts In Modern Policing.
16 p.
British Journal of Criminology.
Vol. 62.
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab085