Street Culture Meets Extremism

How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8401649
AutoresTutenge (0000-0002-3038-3634, Lund University, autor correspondente), Sandberg (0000-0002-1639-6164, University of Oslo)
Ano2022
Volume62
Fascículo6
Páginas1502-1517
Data de publicação2022-10-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azab117
OpenAlexW4213148810
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas45

Many studies have examined why individuals with a background in street life and crime are drawn toward extremism. This paper examines why most people with this background reject extremism. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo, we found that Muslims involved in street culture were generally opposed to jihadism because they perceived jihadists as evil people who harm innocents; bad Muslims who defame Islam; and cowards who break the ‘code of the street.’ This opposition resulted in avoidance behaviours, criticism and, sometimes, violence against suspected jihadists. We argue that research on the crime-terror nexus has focussed too narrowly on the similarities between street culture and jihadism, contributing to a distorted image of Muslims involved in street culture as potential terrorists

Criminology · Criticism · Harm · Ideology · Islam · Jihadism · Nexus (standard) · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Violent extremism · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Engineering · History · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence