Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant

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Autor(a) principal: Wästerfors, David
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Burcar, Veronika
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v2i3.27
Resumo: Ethnic discrimination in the criminal justice system is a well-researched topic, but the significance of ethnicity in policing activities at more mundane levels has attracted less attention. This article analyzes ethnographic data on municipal ‘safety work’ in a Swedish city troubled with robberies, vandalism, and violence. It shows how the efforts of different safety workers, operating to curb crime and promote security, came to focus on the ‘soft’ policing of young men with various immigrant backgrounds. A set of street-level safety practices, performed within spatial demarcations, was found to represent a more-or-less silent orientation towards local minorities; a focus on non-Swedish ethnicities was embedded in the policing activity. This article points out the importance of implied ethnicities in the contemporary landscape of plural policing.
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title Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant
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Wästerfors, David
crime; ethnicity; media; plural policing; safety work; security; urban space
title_short Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant
title_full Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant
title_fullStr Safety Work with an Ethnic Slant
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author Wästerfors, David
author_facet Wästerfors, David
Burcar, Veronika
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Burcar, Veronika
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv crime; ethnicity; media; plural policing; safety work; security; urban space
topic crime; ethnicity; media; plural policing; safety work; security; urban space
description Ethnic discrimination in the criminal justice system is a well-researched topic, but the significance of ethnicity in policing activities at more mundane levels has attracted less attention. This article analyzes ethnographic data on municipal ‘safety work’ in a Swedish city troubled with robberies, vandalism, and violence. It shows how the efforts of different safety workers, operating to curb crime and promote security, came to focus on the ‘soft’ policing of young men with various immigrant backgrounds. A set of street-level safety practices, performed within spatial demarcations, was found to represent a more-or-less silent orientation towards local minorities; a focus on non-Swedish ethnicities was embedded in the policing activity. This article points out the importance of implied ethnicities in the contemporary landscape of plural policing.
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