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Saarikkomäki, Elsa (2016). Perceptions of Procedural Justice among Young People: Narratives of Fair Treatment in Young People’s Stories of Police and Security Guard Interventions. British Journal of Criminology, 56: 1253–1271. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv102
This article examines how young people conceptualize typical narratives of fair and unfair treatment by police and security guards. It…
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
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
Finland is characterised by the high levels of trust in the police. Recently though, discussions have been raised about ethnic…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, 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
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic…
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.
This article focuses on the perspectives of young ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries who have experienced various forms of…
Read moreSollund, R. (2007). Tatt for en annen: En feltstudie av relasjonen mellom etniske minoriteter og politiet. [Mistaken for someone else: A field study of relations between ethnic minorities and the police]. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.
Ragnhild Sollund (criminology) published on the topic of relations between ethnic minorities and the police through a book entitled “Mistaken…
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
Joining insights from the work of Richard Sennett and Erving Goffman, I probe the power relations which underlie the performances…
Read moreFlacks, S. (2017). The stop and search of minors: A ‘vital police tool’? Criminology & Criminal Justice, 1748895817720485. doi:10.1177/1748895817720485
Police stop and search powers have been widely criticized for the disproportionate manner in which members of black and ethnic…
Read moreFlacks, S. (2018). The stop and search of minors: A ‘vital police tool’? Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18(3), 364-384.
Police stop and search powers have been widely criticized for the disproportionate manner in which members of black and ethnic…
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