RT Article
T1 Street Culture Meets Extremism: How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 6
SP 1502
OP 1517
A1 Tutenges, Sébastien
A2 Sandberg, Sveinung 1977-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1838882707
AB Many studies have examined why individuals with a background in street life and crime are drawn toward extremism. This paper examines why most people with this background reject extremism. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo, we found that Muslims involved in street culture were generally opposed to jihadism because they perceived jihadists as evil people who harm innocents; bad Muslims who defame Islam; and cowards who break the ‘code of the street.’ This opposition resulted in avoidance behaviours, criticism and, sometimes, violence against suspected jihadists. We argue that research on the crime-terror nexus has focussed too narrowly on the similarities between street culture and jihadism, contributing to a distorted image of Muslims involved in street culture as potential terrorists.
K1 crime-terror nexus
K1 Ethnography
K1 Extremism
K1 Jihadism
K1 Street culture
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab117