RT Article
T1 Safety work with an ethnic slant
A1 Wästerfors, David
A2 Burcar, Veronika
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1588525805
AB 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.
CN 360 301
K1 Diskriminierung
K1 Justiz
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Ethnische Herkunft
K1 Polizei
K1 Migrationshintergrund
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Innere Sicherheit
K1 Öffentliche Ordnung
K1 Medien
K1 Stadt
K1 Inklusion
DO 10.17645/si.v2i3.27