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Safety work with an ethnic slant
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Abstract Ethnic discrimination in the criminal justice system is a well-researched topic, but the significance of ethnicity in policing activities at more mundane levels has attracted less attention. This article analyzes ethnographic data on municipal "safety work" in a Swedish city troubled with robberies,... view more
Ethnic discrimination in the criminal justice system is a well-researched topic, but the significance of ethnicity in policing activities at more mundane levels has attracted less attention. This article analyzes ethnographic data on municipal "safety work" in a Swedish city troubled with robberies, vandalism, and violence. It shows how the efforts of different safety workers, operating to curb crime and promote security, came to focus on the "soft" policing of young men with various immigrant backgrounds. A set of street-level safety practices, performed within spatial demarcations, was found to represent a more-or-less silent orientation towards local minorities; a focus on non-Swedish ethnicities was embedded in the policing activity. This article points out the importance of implied ethnicities in the contemporary landscape of plural policing.... view less
Keywords
discrimination; judiciary; execution of sentence; ethnic origin; police; migration background; criminality; domestic security; law and order; media; town; inclusion
Classification
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Social Problems
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 88-101
Journal
Social Inclusion, 2 (2014) 3
Issue topic
Policing ethnicity: between the rhetoric of inclusion and the policies and practices of exclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution