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Papers by Kira Rønn

Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Tidsskrift

Collective supervision has become a common way to provide supervision at schools of higher educat... more Collective supervision has become a common way to provide supervision at schools of higher education. This is also true for the supervision of master’s thesis students on the Master’s Programme, Security Risk Management at the University of Copenhagen. Based on experiences with collective supervision of master thesis students, this paper engages with the many understandings of feedback and learning in play in the teaching situation. In the scholarly literature, features such as multivoicedness, dialogue, process- and student-orientation are empha-sized when addressing collective supervision. Yet, our findings show a clash of expectations between a majority of the students (and supervisors) and these ide-als of collective supervision. Indeed, many students still believe feedback should be troubleshooting and product-oriented. In the final part of the paper we out-line a handful of ideas on how to improve future collective supervision to explicit-ly address the gap between expectation...

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

The purpose of this article is to report from a qualitative Scandinavian study with the aim of sh... more The purpose of this article is to report from a qualitative Scandinavian study with the aim of shedding some light on how investigators in the Scandinavian police services perceive the use of information from social media in investigative police work. Based on 12 group interviews and 49 informants from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish police services, we present three overarching themes mirroring the general perception amongst the interviewed investigators that: (1) information from social media is valuable in almost all types of crime investigation; (2) the use of social media information is fraught with technical pitfalls resulting in a general fear of making mistakes; (3) the legal frameworks governing digital investigative action are vague, leading to a feeling amongst the investigators of working in a grey zone. Overall, the informants express the view that this seemingly unregulated part of investigative work requires a major overhaul.

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Journal of Extreme Anthropology

Most people associate predictive policing with science-fiction scenarios, i n w h i c h o f f i c... more Most people associate predictive policing with science-fiction scenarios, i n w h i c h o f f i c e r s u s e c o m p l e x algorithms to anticipate and disrupt crimes before they are committed (McCulloch and Wilson 2016, 1-2). It is not difficult to imagine police stations equipped with high-tech glass walls displaying the results of complex algorithmic calculations that map crime in the local area like modern crystal balls (Egbert and Leese 2021, 170).

Nordisk politiforskning, Jun 27, 2018

A current discussion about the role of research knowledge, particularly in Nordic police research... more A current discussion about the role of research knowledge, particularly in Nordic police research, is concerned with research-funding collaborations being too entangled with political interests in documenting best-practices ("what works"), to maintain a trustworthy degree of critical and freely reflexive ethos. Whereas previous debaters find the solution to be one of researchers distancing themselves from their embeddedness with the police organisation they study in, we argue on the contrary that embedded, in-depth and close-up approaches are essential in producing rich enough knowledge from within the police to achieve critical and freely reflexive research-knowledge. In nuancing perspectives on the role and potential of embedded police researchers in contributing to knowledgeable policing, we suggest a framework for Embedded Police Research.

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2014

Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Tidsskrift

Collective supervision has become a common way to provide supervision at schools of higher educat... more Collective supervision has become a common way to provide supervision at schools of higher education. This is also true for the supervision of master’s thesis students on the Master’s Programme, Security Risk Management at the University of Copenhagen. Based on experiences with collective supervision of master thesis students, this paper engages with the many understandings of feedback and learning in play in the teaching situation. In the scholarly literature, features such as multivoicedness, dialogue, process- and student-orientation are empha-sized when addressing collective supervision. Yet, our findings show a clash of expectations between a majority of the students (and supervisors) and these ide-als of collective supervision. Indeed, many students still believe feedback should be troubleshooting and product-oriented. In the final part of the paper we out-line a handful of ideas on how to improve future collective supervision to explicit-ly address the gap between expectation...

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

The purpose of this article is to report from a qualitative Scandinavian study with the aim of sh... more The purpose of this article is to report from a qualitative Scandinavian study with the aim of shedding some light on how investigators in the Scandinavian police services perceive the use of information from social media in investigative police work. Based on 12 group interviews and 49 informants from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish police services, we present three overarching themes mirroring the general perception amongst the interviewed investigators that: (1) information from social media is valuable in almost all types of crime investigation; (2) the use of social media information is fraught with technical pitfalls resulting in a general fear of making mistakes; (3) the legal frameworks governing digital investigative action are vague, leading to a feeling amongst the investigators of working in a grey zone. Overall, the informants express the view that this seemingly unregulated part of investigative work requires a major overhaul.

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Journal of Extreme Anthropology

Most people associate predictive policing with science-fiction scenarios, i n w h i c h o f f i c... more Most people associate predictive policing with science-fiction scenarios, i n w h i c h o f f i c e r s u s e c o m p l e x algorithms to anticipate and disrupt crimes before they are committed (McCulloch and Wilson 2016, 1-2). It is not difficult to imagine police stations equipped with high-tech glass walls displaying the results of complex algorithmic calculations that map crime in the local area like modern crystal balls (Egbert and Leese 2021, 170).

Nordisk politiforskning, Jun 27, 2018

A current discussion about the role of research knowledge, particularly in Nordic police research... more A current discussion about the role of research knowledge, particularly in Nordic police research, is concerned with research-funding collaborations being too entangled with political interests in documenting best-practices ("what works"), to maintain a trustworthy degree of critical and freely reflexive ethos. Whereas previous debaters find the solution to be one of researchers distancing themselves from their embeddedness with the police organisation they study in, we argue on the contrary that embedded, in-depth and close-up approaches are essential in producing rich enough knowledge from within the police to achieve critical and freely reflexive research-knowledge. In nuancing perspectives on the role and potential of embedded police researchers in contributing to knowledgeable policing, we suggest a framework for Embedded Police Research.

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2014