Pleasures of policing: An additional analysis of xenophobia
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Pleasures of policing : An additional analysis of xenophobia. / Sausdal, David.
I: Theoretical Criminology, Bind 22, Nr. 2, 2018, s. 226-242.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Pleasures of policing
T2 - An additional analysis of xenophobia
AU - Sausdal, David
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In police research, dominant explanations of why law enforcers harbour xenophobic attitudes are most often dressed in cultural or political rationalizations. Based on an ethnographic study of Danish police detectives and their noticeable negativity towards foreign suspects, this article offers an additional explanation of xenophobia. It demonstrates how resentments are spurred not only by cultural prejudice or politics but also by the ways in which foreigners complicate quite ordinary yet, from a police perspective, valued work practices. Following this ethnographic observation, the article ultimately constitutes a call for a better grounding of our criminological theories in the wider context of the workday situations and sensibilities of law enforcement.
AB - In police research, dominant explanations of why law enforcers harbour xenophobic attitudes are most often dressed in cultural or political rationalizations. Based on an ethnographic study of Danish police detectives and their noticeable negativity towards foreign suspects, this article offers an additional explanation of xenophobia. It demonstrates how resentments are spurred not only by cultural prejudice or politics but also by the ways in which foreigners complicate quite ordinary yet, from a police perspective, valued work practices. Following this ethnographic observation, the article ultimately constitutes a call for a better grounding of our criminological theories in the wider context of the workday situations and sensibilities of law enforcement.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Criminological theory
KW - emotions
KW - ethnography
KW - everyday life
KW - methodology
KW - policing
KW - xenophobia
U2 - 10.1177/1362480617707947
DO - 10.1177/1362480617707947
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 226
EP - 242
JO - Theoretical Criminology
JF - Theoretical Criminology
SN - 1362-4806
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 201686831