Criminalizing Style
Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8403159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leandro Schclarek Mulinari (0000-0002-8439-1701, Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 290-305 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azaf044 |
| OpenAlex | W4411046689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
This contribution extends the understanding of the punitive turn that Swedish politics on crime and punishment is taking by exploring the discursive impact of the visitation zone reform, a measure that allows the police to lower their discretionary standards during certain times in designated areas to ‘risk profile’. Based on ten focus group interviews with 51 participants from a racialized working-class area, the analytical focus is on the relationship among risk profiling, racial profiling and the role of clothing. In the article, scholarship on racism is brought together with debates on policing and aesthetic injustice for the enforcement of social order. The visitation zone reform is deciphered as a race-making technique that guides the police gaze based on a racializing place and class-based imaginary of crime. According to residents, through the measure police officers are encouraged to target people who dress in a ‘hood way’. A main argument is that by criminalizing a certain style, identity-formation processes are repressed among racialized youth
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Injustice · Literature · Profiling (computer programming) · Race (biology) · Racial profiling · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
Thematic analysis
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others
Aesthetic Injustice
Black Criminal Stereotypes and Racial Profiling
Race and the Senses
Feeling race
Theorizing aesthetic injustice in democratic education
The symbolic potential of security
Stereotypes, Crime, and Policing
Aesthetic injustice
Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order
This Is Not a Drill
Criminal images
Tracing structural racism in Swedish policing
From object to encounter
Youth justice and racialization
Racial profiling in the racial welfare state
The aesthetics of white racism in pre‐service teacher education
Dealing with police stops
Police Power
Neoliberalism and the Aestheticization of New Middle‐Class Landscapes
Promise and Provocation
Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug Testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–2015
Seeing Like a Cop’
Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces
Just Images
Sweden's race to the bottom
Racial Profiling and Immigration Law Enforcement
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |