From Opponents to ‘Interested’ Partners?: A Case Study of Police and Harm Reduction Service Collaboration

Esben Houborg; Tobias Kammersgaard; Thomas Friis Søgaard

From Opponents to ‘Interested’ Partners? A Case Study of Police and Harm Reduction Service Collaboration

Esben Houborg, Tobias Kammersgaard, Thomas Friis Søgaard

Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Copenhagen
Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research

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Abstract

The chapter presents a case study of how police and low-threshold social and harm reduction services went from being opponents to partners in a joint effort to reduce drug-related harm associated with an open drug scene in Copenhagen. Using the concept of ‘policy network’ (Carlsson 2000) and actor-network theory (Latour 1993), Esben Houborg, Tobias Kammersgaard, and Thomas Søgaard explore the work that went into interesting and enrolling local actors into collective action. Aside from providing insights into the networking processes involved in the development of harm reduction policing, the authors also show how the scheme created new ways of working for the various actors involved and made new types of action possible. The chapter shows that there does not have to be a contradiction between policing and harm reduction, which has often been the case in this area of drug policy.

Original language	Danish
Title of host publication	Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction : Ending the Stalemate
Editors	Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer
Place of publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	Jan 2023
Pages	256-274
Chapter	12
ISBN (Print)	9780367722708, 9780367722692
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003154136
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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From Opponents to ‘Interested’ Partners? A Case Study of Police and Harm Reduction Service Collaboration. / Houborg, Esben ; Kammersgaard, Tobias ; Søgaard, Thomas Friis.
Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction: Ending the Stalemate . ed. / Matthew Bacon; Jack Spicer. London: Routledge, 2023. p. 256-274.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

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