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Ethnic Minority Youths’ Encounters With Private Security Guards: Unwelcome in the City Space




AuthorsElsa Saarikkomäki, Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi

PublisherSage Publications

Publication year2020

JournalJournal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Volume36

Issue1

First page 128

Last page143

Number of pages16

ISSN1043-9862

eISSN1552-5406

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1043986219890205

Web address https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043986219890205

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/43668398


Abstract

An increasing amount of literature is suggesting that ethnic minorities perceive their relations with the police as negative and procedurally unjust. There is, however, a distinctive lack of research on the relations between ethnic minorities and private security agents. This study uses the qualitative interviews of 30 ethnic minority youths living in Finland to explore their interactions with security guards. The findings suggest that perceptions of discrimination, suspicion, being moved on, and exclusion from city space were common. The study advances the theorizations of the changes in policing and procedural justice and incorporates these into the discussions on policing the city space. It argues that net-widening of policing means that city spaces are becoming more unwelcoming for ethnic minority youths in particular, limiting their opportunities to use city spaces.


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