Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare

Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden

Bibliographic Data

ID8400966
AuthorsFia Branteryd (0000-0002-1204-2131, Uppsala University), Carina Gallo (0000-0003-4753-6454, San Francisco State University), Elizabeth Brown (0000-0003-0825-8199, San Francisco State University), Kerstin Svensson (0000-0003-2503-0444, Lund University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume62
Issue4
Pages948-964
Publication date2022-06-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azab089
OpenAlexW3201907748
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited41

This study explores the role of immigration and racialization in creating the first Swedish victim support centre in the early 1980s. The study is based on a qualitative content analysis of the archives of Victim Support Södertälje, the first lasting Swedish victim support centre, from 1983 to 1990. While many of the centre’s activities focused on crime prevention, it defined crime and victimization as the province of immigrant communities in Södertälje, and, notably, as outside—and aberrant from—the imagined racial community of Sweden. Thus, victim support centres were one of the mechanisms to continue to defend the ideals of the Swedish welfare state, but to do so in ways that prevented incursions within Swedish racial homogeneity from the outside

Criminology · Immigration · Political science · Qualitative research · Race (biology) · Racialization · Social science · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law

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