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- Berggren, Kalle, 1980-, et al.
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Queering desistance : Chrononormativity, afterwardsness and young men’s sexual intimate partner violence
- 2020
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Ingår i: Criminology & Criminal Justice. - : SAGE Publications. - 1748-8958 .- 1748-8966. ; 20:5, s. 604-616
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Queer criminology has primarily focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people as victims and perpetrators of crime, as well as on the criminalization of non-heterosexual practices. In this article, we contribute to the emerging discussions on how queer theory can be used in relation to criminological research by exploring desistance processes from a queer temporality perspective. Desistance research emphasizes how and why individuals cease offending and is often guided by a teleology in which individuals are expected to mature and develop new, non-criminal identities. Work on queer temporality, in contrast, has developed thinking that destabilizes chronology and troubles normative life trajectories. In this article, we draw on queer temporality perspectives, particularly the concepts of chrononormativity and afterwardsness, in analysing narratives of young men who have used sexual violence against women partners in Sweden. We demonstrate how criminal identities may develop in retrospect, after desisting, and that identity and behaviour may not necessarily go together.
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- Haller, Mie Birk, et al.
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Minor harassments : Ethnic minority youth in the Nordic countries and their perceptions of the police
- 2020
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Ingår i: Criminology and Criminal Justice. - : SAGE Publications. - 1748-8958 .- 1748-8966. ; 20:1, s. 3-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As different social groups are directly and indirectly confronted with diverse forms of police practices, different sectors of the population accumulate different experiences and respond differently to the police. This study focuses on the everyday experiences of the police among ethnic minority young people in the Nordic countries. The data for the article are based on semi-structured interviews with 121 young people in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. In these interviews, many of the participants refer to experiences of “minor harassments” – police interactions characterized by low-level reciprocal intimidations and subtle provocations, exhibited in specific forms of body language, attitudes and a range of expressions to convey derogatory views. We argue that “minor harassments” can be viewed as a mode of conflictual communication which is inscribed in everyday involuntary interactions between the police and ethnic minority youth and which, over time, can develop an almost ritualized character. Consequently, minority youth are more likely to hold shared experiences that influence their perceptions of procedural justice, notions of legitimacy and the extent to which they comply with law enforcement representatives.
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