A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Ethnic Minority Youths’ Encounters With Private Security Guards: Unwelcome in the City Space
Authors: Elsa Saarikkomäki, Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi
Publisher: Sage Publications
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Volume: 36
Issue: 1
First page : 128
Last page: 143
Number of pages: 16
ISSN: 1043-9862
eISSN: 1552-5406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986219890205
Web address : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043986219890205
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/43668398
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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