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Portrait David Brehm Sausdal. Photo: Johan Persson.

David Sausdal

Associate professor | Associate senior lecturer

Portrait David Brehm Sausdal. Photo: Johan Persson.

Pleasures of policing : An additional analysis of xenophobia

Author

  • David Sausdal

Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2018-05-01

Language

English

Pages

226-242

Publication/Series

Theoretical Criminology

Volume

22

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • Criminological theory
  • emotions
  • ethnography
  • everyday life
  • methodology
  • policing
  • xenophobia

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1362-4806