Malin Åkerström
Professor emerita
Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background.
Författare
Summary, in English
Interactions between the police and young people with an immigrant background are well researched internationally and are often discussed in the context of discrimination. Such interactions may explain, at least in part, why these young people do not report crimes to the police when they are the victims of crimes. This article reports accounts from young crime victims who have an immigrant background. The young men who were interviewed mainly portrayed their decisions not to notify the police in the context of masculinity discourse rather than using a discourse of discrimination, even though the interviewers asked specifically about whether discrimination or trust in the police influenced their decision. We argue that these young men’s accounts reflect their preferred self-presentations, since a dicriminination discourse may be tied to a victim identity that is incompatible with hegemonic masculinity.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
- Socialhögskolan
Publiceringsår
2018
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Nordic Social Work Research
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Sociology
Nyckelord
- crime victims
- young men
- ethnicity
- masculinity
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2156-8588