Johanne Yttri Dahl’s main research interests are surveillance and forensic DNA. She worked on the UrbanEye project as a research assistant as a master student. She wrote her masters thesis on how CCTV affects peoples feeling of safety in public spaces. In 2005 she started working as a research associate on the project “For Whom the Bell Curves”. While working on this project she wrote her Phd on the use of forensic DNA evidence in courts and the forensic DNA-database. She is now associate professor at the Norwegian Police University College where she teaches Sociology, Theory of Science, Research Methods and Work Ethics. She is currently conducting a research project on police use of forensic DNA evidence in investigations, with special focus on volume crime.