Monika Weissensteiner's doctoral research project in Cultural and Global Criminology explores through a multisited study how security policy and practice, intertwined with programs aimed at managing (unauthorised) mobilities and at contrasting cross-border crime, unfold through security actors‘ experiences of everyday practices, and through interactions of different levels (EU, state, local), actors and fields of knowledge. In her analysis Monika seeks to bring developments in security-, border- and policing-studies, criminological understandings of crime (control), and anthropological approaches to (in)security, im/mobility and law (enforcement) into a productive cross-disciplinary dialogue.

Weissensteiner's research project focuses on inner-European border-regions / internal Schengen borders and aims to study developments of cross-border police cooperation and of policing in border-areas, with an attention towards the impact of migration and mobility related cross-border crimes. The empirical part of the research has the objective to study the experiences of law enforcement in the everyday work and in the use of bilateral or European instruments for cross-border cooperation, such as joint patrols or Police and Custom Cooperation Centres. The study is designed as interdisciplinary research, including analysis of relevant policy, legislation, agreements, as well as empirical research through field-observations and interviews with law enforcement practitioners and with other experts of relevance on local/national and EU level. The study is carried out in multiple Member States and border-regions.

Supervision

Prof. dr. Christine Hentschel, Institute for Criminological Research, Department of Social Science, University of Hamburg.

Prof. dr. Dina Siegel-Rozenblit, Law Economics and Governance, Utrecht University School of Law, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University.