Legitimacy and the Swedish Security Service’s Attempts to Mobilize Muslim Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970371 |
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| Authors | Aabby Peterson (University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pages | 109-120 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Criminology and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1929-4409 • E-ISSN: 1929-4409 |
| Publisher | Lifescience Global (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.6000/1929-4409.2012.01.11 |
| OpenAlex | W2107087256 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The paper addresses how the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) is attempting to mobilize the support of the Muslim communities in their counterterrorism strategy, together with their measures to prevent radicalisation processes among Muslim young people. Under what circumstances can we find voluntary cooperation by Muslim Swedes in the state’s anti-terror policing efforts and under what circumstances can we expect that voluntary cooperation will be withheld? The analysis focuses two intertwined factors which I argue influence voluntary cooperation: the potential unintended consequences of the Security Service’s outreach activities and the link between cooperation, institutional legitimacy and procedural justice. It is argued that both the ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ aspects of the Swedish Security Service’s preventive, respective control and intelligence strategies, interconnect to produce unanticipated and unwanted consequences. The Swedish Security Service’s outreach programme can have the unintended consequence that instead of counteracting radicalization processes, the programme, which targets practicing Muslims as per definition potential terrorists, can very well lead to radicalization among young Muslims with experiences of misrecognition
Business · Internal security · Legitimacy · Outreach · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Radicalization · Service (business · State (computer science · Terrorism · Unintended consequences · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
The Cost of Counterterrorism
Why People Obey the Law
Terror, Insecurity and Liberty
Powers of Freedom
Failed and Friendless
Encouraging public cooperation and support for police
Asymmetry in the Impact of Encounters with Police
Contact and confidence
Introduction
Government‐Voluntary Sector Compacts
Community Participation in the Real World
Governmentality, subject‐building, and the discourses and practices of devolution in the UK
Public Confidence in Policing
To Serve and Protect
Public Confidence in the Police
Religion, Resources, and Representation
Crime, policing and social order
The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion
Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counterterrorism Policing
Tolerance, Freedom, Justice and Peace
| Highly cited | No |
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