

Associate senior lecturer
Sociology
Main research areas
- Ethnography, Criminology, Anthropology,
- Policing, Criminal Justice, Transnational Organised Crime, Surveillance & Violence.
Current research
My current research focuses on the relation between transnational crime and policing developments in contemporary society. Such a research interest includes, amongst other things, studies of police investigations, international police cooperation, issues of border control as well as the use of surveillance and other information technologies.
Publications
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Dirty Harry gone global? : On globalizing policing and punitive impotence
David Sausdal
(2022) Policing race, ethnicity and culture : Ethnographic perspectives across Europe
Book chapterTheatrics of Transnational Criminal Justice : Ethnographies of Penality in a Global Age
David Sausdal, Kjersti Lohne
(2021) Theoretical Criminology, 25 p.361-378
Journal articleLooking beyond the police-as-control narrative
David Sausdal
(2021) Doing Human Service Ethnography , p.191-207
Book chapterGlobal Crime Ethnographies : Three Suggestions for a Criminology That Truly Travels
Henrik Vigh, David Sausdal
(2021) The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice
Book chapterA fighting fetish : On transnational police and their warlike presentation of self
David Sausdal
(2021) Theoretical Criminology, 25 p.400-418
Journal articleSpecial Issue: Theatrics of transnational criminal justice: Ethnographies of penality in a global age
David Sausdal, Kjersti Lohne
(2021) Theoretical Criminology, 25
Editor for a journalEveryday deficiencies of police surveillance : a quotidian approach to surveillance studies
David Sausdal
(2020) Policing and Society, 30 p.462-478
Journal articleEveryday policing : toward a greater analytical appreciation of the ordinary in police research
David Sausdal
(2020) Policing and Society
Journal articlePolice Bullshit : Taking Brutal Police Talk Less Seriously
David Sausdal
(2020) Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 4 p.94-115
Journal articleOn the workaday origin of police callousness
David Sausdal
(2020) Society of the Anthropology of Work
Journal articlePolicing at a distance and that human thing : An appreciative critique of police surveillance
David Sausdal
(2019) Focaal, 2019 p.51-64
Journal articleIntroduction: Anthropological criminology 2.0
David Sausdal, Henrik Vigh
(2019) Focaal, 2019 p.1-14
Journal articleTerrorizing police : Revisiting ‘the policing of terrorism’ from the perspective of Danish police detectives
David Sausdal
(2019) European Journal of Criminology
Journal articleAnthropological criminology 2.0 : Ethnographies of global crime and criminalization
(2019) Focaal, 2019
Editor for a journalThe anthropology of crime
Henrik Vigh, David Sausdal
(2018) Handbook of Political Anthropology , p.441-461
Book chapterPleasures of policing : An additional analysis of xenophobia
David Sausdal
(2018) Theoretical Criminology, 22 p.226-242
Journal articleOverponderabilia : Overcoming overthinking when studying “ourselves”
Kasper Tang Vangkilde, David Brehm Sausdal
(2016) Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 17
Journal articleFrom essence back to existence : Anthropology beyond the ontological turn
Henrik Erdman Vigh, David Brehm Sausdal
(2014) Anthropological Theory, 14 p.49-73
Journal articleCultural Culprits : Police Apprehensions of Pickpockets in Copenhagen
David Sausdal
(2014) Crisis and migration : Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics and policies of migration , p.177-204
Book chapterDen ontologiske blænding : Om den ontologiske vendings metodiske og politiske problemer
David Sausdal, Henrik Vigh
(2013) Tidskriftet Antropologi, 67 p.101-119
Book chapter