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Saarikkomäki, Elsa, Haller, Mie Birk, Solhjell, Randi, Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne, Kolind, Torsten, Hunt, Geoffrey & Burcar Alm, Veronika (2021). Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth’s descriptions of police relations. Policing and Society, 31:4, 386-401, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1747462
procedural justice, ethnic minorities, Nordic countries, youth
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic…
Read moreWästerfors, D. & V. B. Alm (2019) “‘They are harsher to me than to my friend who is blonde’. Police critique among ethnic minority youth in Sweden”, Journal of Youth Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2019.1592129
comparisons, identifications, discrimination, Ethnic profiling, ethnicity, racism
Young people belonging to categories and living in areas that are targeted by the police find more arguments for detailed…
Read moreSolhjell, R., Saarikkomäki, E. Haller, M.B., Wästerfors, D. & Kolind, T. (2018) “We are seen as a threat”: Police stops of young ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries. Critical Criminology, 1-15.
experiencing, intersectionality, minorities, police stops, youth
This article focuses on the perspectives of young ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries who have experienced various forms of…
Read morePeterson, A. (2008). Who ‘Owns’ the Streets? Ritual Performances of Respect and Authority in Interactions Between Young Men and Police Officers. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 9(2), 97-118. doi:10.1080/14043850802450104
Erving Goffman, Impression management, Police codes of conduct, Police suppression, Reciprocal relations, Street cultures, Authority, respect, youth
Joining insights from the work of Richard Sennett and Erving Goffman, I probe the power relations which underlie the performances…
Read morePettersson, T. (2013). Belonging and Unbelonging in Encounters Between Young Males and Police Officers: The Use of Masculinity and Ethnicity/Race. Critical Criminology, 21(4), 417-430. doi:10.1007/s10612-013-9199-y
This article is based on a study in which the work of police officers has been followed on a day-to-day…
Read morePettersson, T. (2014). Complaints as Opportunity for Change in Encounters between Youths and Police Officers. Social Inclusion, 2(3), 102-112. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v2i3.44
The presence of distrust in the police and how they perform their work among ethnic minority youths in socially underprivileged…
Read moreLalander, P. (2017). Staging “Chileanness”: Ethnicity, illegal drug economy and social structures. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 24(3), 240-247. doi:10.1080/09687637.2016.1264371
culture, drug dealing, economy, illegal, staged, street, ethnicity, Ethnography
Aim: Following a group of young men with Chilean background living in a Swedish territorially stigmatised area, the author analyses…
Read moreHaller, M. B., R. Solhjell, E. Saarikkomäki, T. Kolind, G. Hunt, D. Wästerfors (2018). “Minor harassments: Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police.” Criminology & Criminal Justice.
procedural justice, Ethnic minority youth, micro-aggressions, minor harassments, Nordic policing
As different social groups are directly and indirectly confronted with diverse forms of police practices, different sectors of the population…
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