Dr Tobias Kammersgaard

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Academic Biography 

I completed my PhD in 2020 at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. In my doctoral research, I investigated private and public policing interventions targeted at marginalized drug users in two cities in Denmark. In my postdoctoral research, I have continued to focus on the policing of various marginalized groups, including homeless people, people who use drugs, and ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Furthermore, I have focused on the ‘softer’ and less coercive aspects of policing, including community policing, police-led drug diversion and harm reduction policing. In that regard, I am particularly interested in criminal justice interventions that operate in the space between care and control.

I joined the School of Business and Society in May 2022 to work at the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre.

Qualifications:

• PhD in Social Science (Aarhus University)
• MSc in Criminology (Aalborg University)
• BSc in Public Administration (Aalborg University)

Publications

Kammersgaard, T. (2023). From punishment to help? Continuity and change in the Norwegian decriminalization reform proposal. International Journal of Drug Policy, 113.

Kammersgaard, T., & Houborg, E. (2023). Governmentality studies and police ethnography: Unpacking the complexities of contemporary policing practices. In J. Fleming, & S. Charman (Eds.) Handbook of Police Ethnography. Routledge.

Kammersgaard, T., Houborg, E., Søgaard, T.F. & Schrøder, S. (2023). “Another tool in the toolbox”: An investigation of a drug diversion programme in a Danish police precinct. In M.Bacon & J. Spicer (Eds.) Ending the Stalemate: Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm
Reduction. Routledge.

Houborg, E., Kammersgaard, T. & Søgaard, T.F. (2023). From opponents to ‘interested’ partners? A case study of police and harm reduction service collaboration. In M. Bacon & J. Spicer (Eds.) Ending the Stalemate: Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction. Routledge.

Kammersgaard, T., Søgaard, T. F., Kolind, T., Hunt, G (2022). “Most officers are more or less color-blind”: Police officers’ reflections on the role of race and ethnicity in policing. Race and Justice

Debbaut, S. & Kammersgaard, T. (2022). The ‘public health’ approach to illicit drugs: an eradicative drug discourse in a sanitorial disguise? Drugs, Habits and Social Policy.

Madsen, M & Kammersgaard, T. (2022). Dining with the police: Resistance and acceptance of community policing. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing.

Søgaard, T. F., Kolind, T., Haller, M. B., Kammersgaard, T., & Hunt, G. (2022). ‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era. The British Journal of Criminology, 1-17.

Haller, M. B., Søgaard, T. F., Kolind, T., Madsen, M., Hunt, G., & Kammersgaard, T. (2022). My Criminal Friend: Maneuvering Friendships and Abstaining from Crime in High-Risk Areas in Denmark. Youth Justice.

Kammersgaard, T. (2022). Reguleringen af udsatte stofbrugeres placering i byens rum: En undersøgelse af tre strategier i Aarhus. In E. Houborg, T. Kammersgaard, J.S. Bach & M. Bancroft (Eds.) Byen og rusmidlerne: Oplevelser, konflikter og regulering. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Kammersgaard, T., Houborg, E., Bach, J. S., & Bancroft, M. (2022). Introduktion. In E. Houborg, T. Kammersgaard, J. S. Bach, & M. Bancroft (Eds.) Byen og rusmidlerne: Oplevelser, konflikter og regulering. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Kammersgaard, T., Søgaard, T.F., Haller M.B., Kolind, T. & Hunt, G. (2021). Community policing in Danish “ghetto” areas: Trust and distrust between the police and ethnic minority youth. Criminology & Criminal Justice.

Kammersgaard, T. (2021). Private security guards policing public space: Using soft power in place of legal authority. Policing and Society, 31(2), 117-130.

Kammersgaard, T. (2020). Being ‘in place’, being ‘out of place’: Problematising marginalised drug users in two cities. International Journal of Drug Policy, 75.

Kammersgaard, T. (2019). Harm Reduction Policing: Policing an Open Drug Scene after Decriminalization. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46(4), 345-362.

Houborg, E., Søgaard, T. F., & Kammersgaard, T. (2019). Kontrol og skadesreduktion i forhold til en åben stofscene. In Bjerge, B. & Houborg, E. (Eds.) Rusmiddelbrugere I Krydsfeltet Mellem Sektorer Og Fagligheder. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Kammersgaard, T. (2018). Police Research Methodology: Studying Police Officers Who Deviate from ‘the Police Culture’. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing, Bind 5, Nr. 2, s. 141-156.

Kammersgaard, T., Heinskou, M. B. & Demant, J. (2017). Buying Stolen Goods: The Ambiguity in Trading Consumer-to-Consumer, Studied through a Mixed Methods Analysis. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, Bind 18, Nr. 1, 2017, s. 93-100.

Pedersen, A. J., Nielsen, J., Kammersgaard, T., Østergaard, C. H. & Møller, K. (2017). Danske politibetjentes perspektiver på peberspray som magtmiddel. Nordisk Politiforskning. Bind 4, Nr. 1, s. 89-107.

Houborg, E., Kammersgaard, T. & Pedersen, M.M. (2016). Drug Policing in Four Danish Police Districts. Police, Practice and Research: An International Journal, Bind 17, Nr. 4, 2016, s. 329- 340.