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Saarikkomäki, Elsa & Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne (2020). Ethnic Minority Youths’ Encounters With Private Security Guards: Unwelcome in the City Space. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 36(1), 128–143.
An increasing amount of literature is suggesting that ethnic minorities perceive their relations with the police as negative and procedurally…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa & Kivivuori, Janne (2013). Young People as Objects of Police Control in a Nordic Context: Who Are the Socially Visible Targets? European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 19: 351–368.
In Finland, more than one in four young females and almost one in three young males experienced some type of…
Read moreVan Praet, S. (2022), “Police selectivity “on demand”: the role of organisational justice in promoting procedural justice”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 194-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-01-2021-0004
procedural justice, action research, organisational justice, police selectivity, reactive policing
Purpose This paper presents the results of an action research with a Brussels’ police force. This research aimed to identify…
Read moreScalia, V. (2022), “Deadly dialogues: The Magherini case and police brutalities in Italy”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-02-2021-0011
brutality, enforcement, Italy, othering, police, procedure
Purpose This paper looks at police brutalities in Italy. In particular, the discussion focusses on the case of the death…
Read moreVarghese, A. (2022), “Police interactions in post-colonial India: how particularistic accountability, legitimacy and tolerated illegality condition everyday policing in Delhi and Kerala”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 162-180. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0057
accountability, everyday, India, Legitimacy, police, power, tolerated illegality
Purpose The paper aims to relocate discussions on police stops and police interactions from the Anglophone world to the particularistic…
Read moreHendy, R. (2022), “Suspicious minds and suspicioning: constructing suspicion during policework”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 132-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0056
New Zealand, police practice, policing, South Australia, stop and search, suspicion
Purpose This article explores officer use of suspicion before informal police-citizen encounters as a method to further understand police officer…
Read moreSaudelli, I., De Kimpe, S. and Christiaens, J. (2022), “Police stops, suspicion and the influence of police department cultures: a look into the Belgian context”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 98-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-02-2021-0008
Ethnography, police department culture, police stops, suspicion
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how suspicion that leads to a police stop is developed by…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa (2018). Young people’s conceptions of trust and confidence in the crime control system: Differences between public and private policing. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18, 156–172. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748895817700695
procedural justice, focus groups, police, private security guards, Trust, youth
Private security increasingly participates in policing, thus changing the field of policing. However, there is a lack of research on…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa (2021). Etnisten vähemmistönuorten kokemukset virallisesta kontrollista ja leimasta. [Experiences of label and control among ethnic minority youths in Finland, Finnish Criminology Journal] Kriminologia, 1(1), 20–38. https://kriminologia.journal.fi/article/view/109018
criminological labeling theory, Ethnic profiling, police, private security, youth
Finland is characterised by the high levels of trust in the police. Recently though, discussions have been raised about ethnic…
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