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Brauer, E., Dangelmaier, T. and Hunold, D. (2022), ““Police spatial knowledge” – Aspects of spatial constitutions by the police”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0053
class, ethnicity, Gender, narratives, police knowledge, space
Purpose The article presents research results of an ethnographic survey within the German police. The focus is on practices of…
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 moreNamba, M. (2011). ‘War on Illegal Immigrants’, national narratives, and globalisation: Japanese policy and practice of police stop and question in global perspective. Policing and Society, 21(4), 432-443.
ethnicity, globalisation, immigration, Japan, national narrative, penal populism, stop and search
Polundericing, even stop and account, despite being tied to the local, has been confronted with the current pervasiveness of global…
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 moreAriel, B., & Tankebe, J. (2018). Racial stratification and multiple outcomes in police stops and searches. Policing and Society, 28(5), 507-525.
arrests, Donald Black, ethnicity, formal warnings, stop and search, Stratification
The present study explores ethnic differences in stop-and-search outcomes. It uses data from 53,858 stop-and-search incidents recorded by a United…
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