This book critically addresses the proliferation of intelligence logics within policing from an array of scholarly perspectives. It offers new insights by exploring dilemmas, legal issues and questions raised by the use of intelligence-led methods.

Introduction, Nicholas R. Fyfe, Helene O.I. Gundhus and Kira Vrist Rønn, Part I: The proliferation of intelligence-led policing. 1. Police practices in the age of precaution: A moral typology, Vidar Halvorsen, 2. Investigation or instigation? Enforcing grooming legislation, Heidi Mork Lomell, 3. Predicting crime? On challenges to the police in becoming knowledgeable organizations, Nadja K. Hestehave, Part II: New logics - new measures? 4. The preventive use of surveillance measures in the protection of National security: A comparative analysis of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish legislation, Ingvild Bruce, 5. On the hunt: Aspects of the use of communication control in Norway, Paul Larsson, 6. The professional ethics of intelligence: On the feasibility of ethics as internal self-regulation of intelligence activities, Kira Vrist Rønn, Part III: Innovations and new technologies. 7. The co-construction of crime predictions: Dynamics between digital data, software and human beings, Mareile Kaufmann, 8. Grey zone creativity: The case of proactive policing, Mia R.K. Hartmann, Part IV: Outsourcing police work. 9. Plural policing webs: Unveiling the various forms of partnering and knowledge exchange in the production of nightlife territoriality, Thomas Friis Søgaard and Esben Houborg, 10. Privatization of intelligence-led policing: Auditors doing forensic work, Janne Flyghed, Part V: Joining forces. 11. Negotiating risks and threats: Securing the border through the lens of intelligence, Helene O. I. Gundhus, 12. The changing ecology and equity of policing: Some implications of reconfiguring boundaries in an era of police reform, Nicholas R. Fyfe, Part VI: Old crimes, new ways. 13. Policy making without politics: Overstating objectivity in intelligence-led policing, Annette Vestby, 14. Banning and banishing outlaw motorcycle gangs, Synnøve Jahnsen, Index.