RT Article
T1 Ethnic Minority Youths’ Encounters With Private Security Guards: Unwelcome in the City Space
JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice
VO 36
IS 1
SP 128
OP 143
A1 Saarikkomäki, Elsa
A2 Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1794878084
AB An increasing amount of literature is suggesting that ethnic minorities perceive their relations with the police as negative and procedurally unjust. There is, however, a distinctive lack of research on the relations between ethnic minorities and private security agents. This study uses the qualitative interviews of 30 ethnic minority youths living in Finland to explore their interactions with security guards. The findings suggest that perceptions of discrimination, suspicion, being moved on, and exclusion from city space were common. The study advances the theorizations of the changes in policing and procedural justice and incorporates these into the discussions on policing the city space. It argues that net-widening of policing means that city spaces are becoming more unwelcoming for ethnic minority youths in particular, limiting their opportunities to use city spaces.
K1 Ethnic minorities
K1 Private Security
K1 Procedural Justice
K1 urban space
K1 Young People
DO 10.1177/1043986219890205