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20 Criminology & Crim. Just. 3 (2020)

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Article


Minor harassments: Ethnic

minority youth in the

Nordic countries and their

perceptions of the police


  Criminology & Criminal justice
        2020, Vol. 20(1) 3-20
        © The Author(s) 2018
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DOI: 10.1 177/1748895818800744
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Mie   Birk  Haller
Aarhus University, Denmark



Randi   Solhjell
Norwegian Police University College, Norway



Elsa  Saarikkomaki
University of Turku, Finland; University of Helsinki, Finland



Torsten Kolind
Aarhus University, Denmark



Geoffrey Hunt
Aarhus University, Denmark



David   Wasterfors
Lund University, Sweden





Abstract
As different social groups are directly and indirectly confronted with diverse forms of police
practices, different sectors of the population accumulate different experiences and respond
differently to the police. This study focuses on the everyday experiences of the police among
ethnic minority young people in the Nordic countries. The data for the article are based on


Corresponding author:
Mie Birk Haller, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alls 10, Aarhus,
8000, Denmark.
Email: mbh.crf@psy.au.dk