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Papers by Synnøve Ugelvik

Research paper thumbnail of Correction to: Country Report “Norway”

Research paper thumbnail of Country Report “Norway”

Legal Studies in International, European and Comparative Criminal Law, 2020

In September 2019, the third Global Climate Strike organized by the Fridays For Future (FFF) prot... more In September 2019, the third Global Climate Strike organized by the Fridays For Future (FFF) protest campaign mobilized 6000 protest events in 185 countries and brought 7.6 million participants out ...

Research paper thumbnail of Law Enforcement Without a State

Scandinavian studies in law, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration control in Ultima Thule: Detention and exclusion, Norwegian style

European Journal of Criminology, 2013

The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is... more The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is the country’s only closed immigration detention centre. Although detainees are held there as a result of having violated the Immigration Act and not the Penal Code, and whilst their detention is meant to facilitate deportation and not as punishment, Trandum’s Centre looks and feels exactly like a conventional prison in a variety of ways. The aim of this article is to introduce the Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum as part of a wider Norwegian (and thus European) immigration control regime, as well as detailing information about the centre in itself, drawing to this end on publicly available reports by the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration, the Independent Council in charge of monitoring operations at Trandum’s Centre, and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Research paper thumbnail of Utenlandske bevis som kan vaere innhentet ved bruk av tortur eller umenneskelig eller nedverdigende behandling: Når er bevisavskjaering påkrevd av hensyn til EMK art. 6

Straff og frihet: til vern om den liberale rettsstat. Festskrift til Tor-Aksel Busch, 2019

Straffesaksbehandlingens internasjonalisering har vært et tilbakevendende tema de senere årene og... more Straffesaksbehandlingens internasjonalisering har vært et tilbakevendende tema de senere årene og var blant de hovedgrunnene til at regjeringen satte i gang arbeidet med å utarbeide en ny straffeprosesslov. Den grenseoverskridende kriminaliteten har vært en sentral drivkraft bak utviklingen av et stadig tettere politi- og påtalesamarbeid på tvers av landegrensene, særlig i Europa. Dette gjør at norsk politi og påtalemyndighet lettere kan få tilgang til bevis som er innhentet i utlandet, og som kan ha avgjørende betydning for å avdekke og straffeforfølge kriminalitet i Norge.

Tilgang på utenlandske bevis skaper samtidig en rekke utfordringer for den norske strafferettspleien. Det er for eksempel ikke gitt at det skal være adgang til å benytte bevis i en norsk straffesak som er innhentet på vilkår som avviker fra norsk rett, under omstendigheter som fremstår som uklare, eller hvor verken påtalemyndigheten eller tiltalte har fått tilgang til alt materialet som utenlandske myndigheter besitter. I denne artikkelen behandler vi en av problemstillingene som tilgangen på utenlandske bevis kan gi opphav til: I hvilken utstrekning er det tillatt å føre bevis i Norge som er innhentet i utlandet, der det er risiko for at bevisinnhentingen har skjedd ved bruk av tortur eller umenneskelig eller nedverdigende behandling?

Research paper thumbnail of Privat provokasjon: Strafferettslige og straffeprosessuelle konsekvenser av privatpersoners utfordrende etterforskingsvirksomhet

Tidsskrift for strafferett, 2019

Overgrep mot barn skaper sterke følelser og reaksjoner hos mange. Nettovergrep er et hurtigvoksen... more Overgrep mot barn skaper sterke følelser og reaksjoner hos mange. Nettovergrep er et hurtigvoksende problem, og mulighetene er gode for å operere skjult under lav oppdagelsesrisiko. Problemet har fått private aktører til å ta loven i egne hender. Vår artikkel belyser hvilke strafferettslige og straffeprosessuelle konsekvenser det kan få når private på eget initiativ søker å oppklare og hindre seksuallovbrudd via internett mot barn. Vi ser på i hvilken utstrekning private har lov til å bruke etterforskningsmetoder som politiet ikke har, og hvilke konsekvenser det kan få når private bedriver handlingsprovokasjon. Som eksempel benyttes en konkret sak der gruppen Barnas Trygghet ervervet bevis ved provokasjon.

Research paper thumbnail of Geir Heivoll: Lovens lange arm? En studie av politibetjenters rolle som rettshåndhevere

Tidsskrift for strafferett

Research paper thumbnail of Policing High-Trust Societies - Five Pieces to the Puzzle

Nordisk politiforskning, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Policing High-Trust Societies - Five Pieces to the Puzzle

Nordisk politiforskning, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Inside on the Outside: Norway and Police Cooperation in the EU

Norway is not an EU member. Or is it? This thesis shows that Norway is tightly interwoven with th... more Norway is not an EU member. Or is it? This thesis shows that Norway is tightly interwoven with the EU through extensive police cooperation measures and agreements. The State and the police are traditionally closely connected phenomena: One often speaks of the police as the prolonged arm of the government or law. The thesis shows that not only may foreign police forces increasingly operate on Norwegian territory and vice versa, but in addition, a long line of regulations and cooperation instruments from the EU level are incorporated into Norwegian law and society. What does it imply to be a sovereign State in Europe today, and what implications does Norway’s formal status as a non-EU member have? Are the Norwegian police fundamentally different following the Norwegian accession to the Schengen cooperation, which served as a major milestone for the intensity of the police cooperation? The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part has a historical perspective. It seeks to illuminate what the Norwegian police as such are by providing insight into its development from an early local and partly voluntary function in the Viking era and the early Medieval age, via increasing centralization alongside the development of Norway as a State in union with Denmark and Sweden, up to the modern independent state police force that was regulated in a national law in 1927. The second part provides a thorough and detailed insight into the international police cooperation mechanisms that have been developed through EU regulations. The evolvement of the EU as an increasingly important actor on the justice and home affairs area is discussed alongside Norway’s relation to this EU field of action, including its possibility to influence the developing instruments. This part is a comprehensive account of the Norwegian possibilities within the EU police cooperation mechanisms. In the final part, the various effects and consequences of what the thesis calls a new police situation are discussed. The new situation has both positive and negative sides. One of the most striking aspects is that Norway as a State seems to show remarkably little interest in the fact that central aspects of what is arguably part of the core of the State’s tasks - policing the territory - is to an increasing degree being decided at the EU level. Norway is hardly ever raising critique or taking advantage of its outsider position to actually stay out of justice and home affairs developments that raise massive debates in EU Member States.
Provocatively, the thesis argues that Norway was only completely sovereign as a State between 1905 and 2001, until the Schengen cooperation entered into force for Norway.

Research paper thumbnail of En utdatert politilov? Om forholdet mellom 'person', 'borger', 'samfunn' og 'stat' i Norge etter Schengen.

Krimmigrasjon: Den nye kontrollen av de fremmede.

Den 28. oktober 2009 satte norsk og serbisk politi sammen i verk spanings-og pågripelsesaksjonen ... more Den 28. oktober 2009 satte norsk og serbisk politi sammen i verk spanings-og pågripelsesaksjonen "Pink BMW". 2 Aksjonen, som varte i 13 døgn og inkluderte ni norske politidistrikter, betegnes som en suksess, idet den avverget et stort ran ved en gull-og sølvleverandør i Asker. Tyvegodset skulle fraktes til og omsettes i Serbia. Totalt ni personer ble pågrepet i løpet av de to ukene aksjonen varte. Flere av disse viste seg å vaere kjenninger av politiet i flere europeiske land. Den ene var etterlyst for å ha stjålet gull for åtte millioner kroner i Tyskland. Hendelsen er ikke enestående. Man kan jevnlig lese i avisene at kriminelle fra Øst-Europa drar på tokt i Vest-Europa. 3 Samtidig er godt politisamarbeid over landegrensene heller ikke enestående; norsk politi har for eksempel til dels tett samarbeid med rumensk politi, slik at tyvegods fra Norge kan beslaglegges i Romania, og politifotografier og lignende etterforskningsmateriale kan digitaliseres og sendes over grensene, slik at kjenninger av enten norsk eller utenlandsk politi kan gjenkjennes. 4 I Frankrike patruljerer rumensk politi, både på egen hånd og sammen med fransk politi, fordi rumenske borgere på fransk territorium regnes som et spesielt problem. 5 Europol feiret nylig tiårsjubileum som det sentrale samarbeidsorganet for europeisk politi. Dette er en organisasjon som med stor tyngde

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration control in Ultima Thule: Detention and exclusion, Norwegian style

The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is... more The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is the country’s only closed immigration detention centre. Although detainees are held there as a result of having violated the Immigration Act and not the Penal Code, and whilst their detention is meant to facilitate deportation and not as punishment, Trandum’s Centre looks and feels exactly like a conventional prison in a variety of ways. The aim of this article is to introduce the Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum as part of a wider Norwegian (and thus European) immigration control regime, as well as detailing information about the centre in itself, drawing to this end on publicly available reports by the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration, the Independent Council in charge of monitoring operations at Trandum’s Centre, and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Research paper thumbnail of States of security: How the Lisbon treaty changes areas of freedom, security and justice.

Research paper thumbnail of Prosesser

«Internasjonalt samarbeid fremstilles som en sentral del av strategien i kampen mot den globalise... more «Internasjonalt samarbeid fremstilles som en sentral del av strategien i kampen mot den globaliserte kriminaliteten. Denne kampen har, som alle andre, kostnader. Spørsmålet er hvilken pris vi som samfunn er villige til å betale for økt trygghet og sikkerhet.»

Research paper thumbnail of Mot et harmonisk Europa? Om utviklingen av den strafferettslige kontrollen i EU, og hvordan denne kan føre til et mindre likeverdig fellesskap.

Harmonization and integration are ideals frequently articulated in the context of the European Un... more Harmonization and integration are ideals frequently articulated in the context of the European Union. It is an EU goal to make member states' citizens become interconnected and united with each other. Likewise, the laws of the member states are in a process of harmonization, of becoming more alike. A well-functioning union constituting an area of freedom, security and justice is one where member states and citizens are in harmony. In the world of music, harmony is an ambiguous phenomenon. Whilst harmony traditionally has been a prerequisite for a successful composition, today, dissonance has become a legitimate musical expression.

Which implicit assumptions are implied in the EU ideal of harmonization? Could it include what may, employing a musical term, be conceived of as a well-tempered collection of many diverse, but internally melodious harmonic states? Could such a vision allow for and enable dissonant tones characteristic of modern music? Or is this vision based on a more traditional concept of harmony, with a more rigid understanding of what sounds beautiful?

Research paper thumbnail of Tittel: Politi uten grenser? Undertittel: Om grenseoverskridende etterforskning i Schengenområdet Publisert år: 2006 Dokumenttype: Spesialoppgave …

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For å kunne åpne dokumentet må du ha en PDF-leser, f.eks. Adobe Reader. Programmet kan hentes gra... more For å kunne åpne dokumentet må du ha en PDF-leser, f.eks. Adobe Reader. Programmet kan hentes gratis på Adobes hjemmeside, Adobe. Store pdf-dokumenter kan ikke vises i enkelte nettlesere: Har du problemer - høyreklikk på lenken og lagre fila lokalt!

Books by Synnøve Ugelvik

Research paper thumbnail of Police Cooperation and Sovereignty in the EU: Norway's Lessons for Europe

The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, r... more The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, rapid EU legal developments mean that European police forces are no longer tied to a specific national legal context or a specific territory in the way they used to be.

Norway is not a member of the EU. Or is it? This book shows that although it lacks formal membership status, Norway has become part of almost all of the major EU police cooperation measures and agreements. Not only does this mean that foreign police forces may operate on Norwegian territory and vice versa, but in addition, a wide range of EU regulations and cooperation instruments are incorporated directly into Norwegian law. With the increased focus on international and transnational police cooperation in mind, what does it mean to be a sovereign state in Europe today?

This book combines strong legal and theoretical analyses of a specific national system to show how this country is tied to and dependent on a wider international and supranational system of legal rules, technologies and concepts. This makes the book relevant not only for the Norwegian prosecution and police authorities, but also for readers outside Norway interested in exploring how and whether the police as a modern state function has changed through the implementation of international cross-border cooperation mechanisms.

Research paper thumbnail of Correction to: Country Report “Norway”

Research paper thumbnail of Country Report “Norway”

Legal Studies in International, European and Comparative Criminal Law, 2020

In September 2019, the third Global Climate Strike organized by the Fridays For Future (FFF) prot... more In September 2019, the third Global Climate Strike organized by the Fridays For Future (FFF) protest campaign mobilized 6000 protest events in 185 countries and brought 7.6 million participants out ...

Research paper thumbnail of Law Enforcement Without a State

Scandinavian studies in law, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration control in Ultima Thule: Detention and exclusion, Norwegian style

European Journal of Criminology, 2013

The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is... more The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is the country’s only closed immigration detention centre. Although detainees are held there as a result of having violated the Immigration Act and not the Penal Code, and whilst their detention is meant to facilitate deportation and not as punishment, Trandum’s Centre looks and feels exactly like a conventional prison in a variety of ways. The aim of this article is to introduce the Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum as part of a wider Norwegian (and thus European) immigration control regime, as well as detailing information about the centre in itself, drawing to this end on publicly available reports by the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration, the Independent Council in charge of monitoring operations at Trandum’s Centre, and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Research paper thumbnail of Utenlandske bevis som kan vaere innhentet ved bruk av tortur eller umenneskelig eller nedverdigende behandling: Når er bevisavskjaering påkrevd av hensyn til EMK art. 6

Straff og frihet: til vern om den liberale rettsstat. Festskrift til Tor-Aksel Busch, 2019

Straffesaksbehandlingens internasjonalisering har vært et tilbakevendende tema de senere årene og... more Straffesaksbehandlingens internasjonalisering har vært et tilbakevendende tema de senere årene og var blant de hovedgrunnene til at regjeringen satte i gang arbeidet med å utarbeide en ny straffeprosesslov. Den grenseoverskridende kriminaliteten har vært en sentral drivkraft bak utviklingen av et stadig tettere politi- og påtalesamarbeid på tvers av landegrensene, særlig i Europa. Dette gjør at norsk politi og påtalemyndighet lettere kan få tilgang til bevis som er innhentet i utlandet, og som kan ha avgjørende betydning for å avdekke og straffeforfølge kriminalitet i Norge.

Tilgang på utenlandske bevis skaper samtidig en rekke utfordringer for den norske strafferettspleien. Det er for eksempel ikke gitt at det skal være adgang til å benytte bevis i en norsk straffesak som er innhentet på vilkår som avviker fra norsk rett, under omstendigheter som fremstår som uklare, eller hvor verken påtalemyndigheten eller tiltalte har fått tilgang til alt materialet som utenlandske myndigheter besitter. I denne artikkelen behandler vi en av problemstillingene som tilgangen på utenlandske bevis kan gi opphav til: I hvilken utstrekning er det tillatt å føre bevis i Norge som er innhentet i utlandet, der det er risiko for at bevisinnhentingen har skjedd ved bruk av tortur eller umenneskelig eller nedverdigende behandling?

Research paper thumbnail of Privat provokasjon: Strafferettslige og straffeprosessuelle konsekvenser av privatpersoners utfordrende etterforskingsvirksomhet

Tidsskrift for strafferett, 2019

Overgrep mot barn skaper sterke følelser og reaksjoner hos mange. Nettovergrep er et hurtigvoksen... more Overgrep mot barn skaper sterke følelser og reaksjoner hos mange. Nettovergrep er et hurtigvoksende problem, og mulighetene er gode for å operere skjult under lav oppdagelsesrisiko. Problemet har fått private aktører til å ta loven i egne hender. Vår artikkel belyser hvilke strafferettslige og straffeprosessuelle konsekvenser det kan få når private på eget initiativ søker å oppklare og hindre seksuallovbrudd via internett mot barn. Vi ser på i hvilken utstrekning private har lov til å bruke etterforskningsmetoder som politiet ikke har, og hvilke konsekvenser det kan få når private bedriver handlingsprovokasjon. Som eksempel benyttes en konkret sak der gruppen Barnas Trygghet ervervet bevis ved provokasjon.

Research paper thumbnail of Geir Heivoll: Lovens lange arm? En studie av politibetjenters rolle som rettshåndhevere

Tidsskrift for strafferett

Research paper thumbnail of Policing High-Trust Societies - Five Pieces to the Puzzle

Nordisk politiforskning, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Policing High-Trust Societies - Five Pieces to the Puzzle

Nordisk politiforskning, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Inside on the Outside: Norway and Police Cooperation in the EU

Norway is not an EU member. Or is it? This thesis shows that Norway is tightly interwoven with th... more Norway is not an EU member. Or is it? This thesis shows that Norway is tightly interwoven with the EU through extensive police cooperation measures and agreements. The State and the police are traditionally closely connected phenomena: One often speaks of the police as the prolonged arm of the government or law. The thesis shows that not only may foreign police forces increasingly operate on Norwegian territory and vice versa, but in addition, a long line of regulations and cooperation instruments from the EU level are incorporated into Norwegian law and society. What does it imply to be a sovereign State in Europe today, and what implications does Norway’s formal status as a non-EU member have? Are the Norwegian police fundamentally different following the Norwegian accession to the Schengen cooperation, which served as a major milestone for the intensity of the police cooperation? The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part has a historical perspective. It seeks to illuminate what the Norwegian police as such are by providing insight into its development from an early local and partly voluntary function in the Viking era and the early Medieval age, via increasing centralization alongside the development of Norway as a State in union with Denmark and Sweden, up to the modern independent state police force that was regulated in a national law in 1927. The second part provides a thorough and detailed insight into the international police cooperation mechanisms that have been developed through EU regulations. The evolvement of the EU as an increasingly important actor on the justice and home affairs area is discussed alongside Norway’s relation to this EU field of action, including its possibility to influence the developing instruments. This part is a comprehensive account of the Norwegian possibilities within the EU police cooperation mechanisms. In the final part, the various effects and consequences of what the thesis calls a new police situation are discussed. The new situation has both positive and negative sides. One of the most striking aspects is that Norway as a State seems to show remarkably little interest in the fact that central aspects of what is arguably part of the core of the State’s tasks - policing the territory - is to an increasing degree being decided at the EU level. Norway is hardly ever raising critique or taking advantage of its outsider position to actually stay out of justice and home affairs developments that raise massive debates in EU Member States.
Provocatively, the thesis argues that Norway was only completely sovereign as a State between 1905 and 2001, until the Schengen cooperation entered into force for Norway.

Research paper thumbnail of En utdatert politilov? Om forholdet mellom 'person', 'borger', 'samfunn' og 'stat' i Norge etter Schengen.

Krimmigrasjon: Den nye kontrollen av de fremmede.

Den 28. oktober 2009 satte norsk og serbisk politi sammen i verk spanings-og pågripelsesaksjonen ... more Den 28. oktober 2009 satte norsk og serbisk politi sammen i verk spanings-og pågripelsesaksjonen "Pink BMW". 2 Aksjonen, som varte i 13 døgn og inkluderte ni norske politidistrikter, betegnes som en suksess, idet den avverget et stort ran ved en gull-og sølvleverandør i Asker. Tyvegodset skulle fraktes til og omsettes i Serbia. Totalt ni personer ble pågrepet i løpet av de to ukene aksjonen varte. Flere av disse viste seg å vaere kjenninger av politiet i flere europeiske land. Den ene var etterlyst for å ha stjålet gull for åtte millioner kroner i Tyskland. Hendelsen er ikke enestående. Man kan jevnlig lese i avisene at kriminelle fra Øst-Europa drar på tokt i Vest-Europa. 3 Samtidig er godt politisamarbeid over landegrensene heller ikke enestående; norsk politi har for eksempel til dels tett samarbeid med rumensk politi, slik at tyvegods fra Norge kan beslaglegges i Romania, og politifotografier og lignende etterforskningsmateriale kan digitaliseres og sendes over grensene, slik at kjenninger av enten norsk eller utenlandsk politi kan gjenkjennes. 4 I Frankrike patruljerer rumensk politi, både på egen hånd og sammen med fransk politi, fordi rumenske borgere på fransk territorium regnes som et spesielt problem. 5 Europol feiret nylig tiårsjubileum som det sentrale samarbeidsorganet for europeisk politi. Dette er en organisasjon som med stor tyngde

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration control in Ultima Thule: Detention and exclusion, Norwegian style

The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is... more The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is the country’s only closed immigration detention centre. Although detainees are held there as a result of having violated the Immigration Act and not the Penal Code, and whilst their detention is meant to facilitate deportation and not as punishment, Trandum’s Centre looks and feels exactly like a conventional prison in a variety of ways. The aim of this article is to introduce the Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum as part of a wider Norwegian (and thus European) immigration control regime, as well as detailing information about the centre in itself, drawing to this end on publicly available reports by the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration, the Independent Council in charge of monitoring operations at Trandum’s Centre, and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Research paper thumbnail of States of security: How the Lisbon treaty changes areas of freedom, security and justice.

Research paper thumbnail of Prosesser

«Internasjonalt samarbeid fremstilles som en sentral del av strategien i kampen mot den globalise... more «Internasjonalt samarbeid fremstilles som en sentral del av strategien i kampen mot den globaliserte kriminaliteten. Denne kampen har, som alle andre, kostnader. Spørsmålet er hvilken pris vi som samfunn er villige til å betale for økt trygghet og sikkerhet.»

Research paper thumbnail of Mot et harmonisk Europa? Om utviklingen av den strafferettslige kontrollen i EU, og hvordan denne kan føre til et mindre likeverdig fellesskap.

Harmonization and integration are ideals frequently articulated in the context of the European Un... more Harmonization and integration are ideals frequently articulated in the context of the European Union. It is an EU goal to make member states' citizens become interconnected and united with each other. Likewise, the laws of the member states are in a process of harmonization, of becoming more alike. A well-functioning union constituting an area of freedom, security and justice is one where member states and citizens are in harmony. In the world of music, harmony is an ambiguous phenomenon. Whilst harmony traditionally has been a prerequisite for a successful composition, today, dissonance has become a legitimate musical expression.

Which implicit assumptions are implied in the EU ideal of harmonization? Could it include what may, employing a musical term, be conceived of as a well-tempered collection of many diverse, but internally melodious harmonic states? Could such a vision allow for and enable dissonant tones characteristic of modern music? Or is this vision based on a more traditional concept of harmony, with a more rigid understanding of what sounds beautiful?

Research paper thumbnail of Tittel: Politi uten grenser? Undertittel: Om grenseoverskridende etterforskning i Schengenområdet Publisert år: 2006 Dokumenttype: Spesialoppgave …

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For å kunne åpne dokumentet må du ha en PDF-leser, f.eks. Adobe Reader. Programmet kan hentes gra... more For å kunne åpne dokumentet må du ha en PDF-leser, f.eks. Adobe Reader. Programmet kan hentes gratis på Adobes hjemmeside, Adobe. Store pdf-dokumenter kan ikke vises i enkelte nettlesere: Har du problemer - høyreklikk på lenken og lagre fila lokalt!

Research paper thumbnail of Police Cooperation and Sovereignty in the EU: Norway's Lessons for Europe

The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, r... more The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, rapid EU legal developments mean that European police forces are no longer tied to a specific national legal context or a specific territory in the way they used to be.

Norway is not a member of the EU. Or is it? This book shows that although it lacks formal membership status, Norway has become part of almost all of the major EU police cooperation measures and agreements. Not only does this mean that foreign police forces may operate on Norwegian territory and vice versa, but in addition, a wide range of EU regulations and cooperation instruments are incorporated directly into Norwegian law. With the increased focus on international and transnational police cooperation in mind, what does it mean to be a sovereign state in Europe today?

This book combines strong legal and theoretical analyses of a specific national system to show how this country is tied to and dependent on a wider international and supranational system of legal rules, technologies and concepts. This makes the book relevant not only for the Norwegian prosecution and police authorities, but also for readers outside Norway interested in exploring how and whether the police as a modern state function has changed through the implementation of international cross-border cooperation mechanisms.