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Malin Åkerström

Malin Åkerström

Professor emerita

Malin Åkerström

Refraining from reporting crimes: accounts from young male crime victims with an immigrant background.

Författare

  • Malin Åkerström
  • Anna Rypi
  • Veronika Burcar Alm

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