Toleration by Victimized Coffeeshops in Amsterdam

Bibliographic Data

ID21309366
AuthorsScott Jacques (0000-0002-2089-4078, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA), Kim Moeller (Malmö Universitet Fakulteten för Hälsa och Samhälle, Skåne, Sweden)
Year2023
Volume69
Issue3
Pages510-532
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCrime & Delinquency (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1287 • E-ISSN: 1552-387X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00111287221148653
OpenAlexW4319836228
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited46

Dutch coffeeshops are quasi-illegal. Their sale of cannabis is de jure prohibited but de facto permitted. In this sense, their criminal acts are tolerated. Less often explored, and less well understood, is that coffeeshops also tolerate crimes against them. “Doing nothing” is a common way to manage conflict. Why and how does it occur? In this article, we use the opportunity and rationality perspectives to analyze qualitative data obtained during interviews with 50 personnel of coffeeshops in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After presenting our findings, we discuss their general implications for tolerant, and intolerant, ways to manage conflict

Bureaucracy · Computer security · Criminology · De facto · Epistemology · Nothing · Political science · Qualitative research · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Toleration · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence