Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
88-101
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Social Inclusion
Volym
2
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Cogitatio
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- security
- safety work
- plural policing
- media
- crime
- ethnicity
- urban space
- Sociology
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2183-2803