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dc.contributor.authorBjørgo, Tore
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-08T13:50:41Z
dc.date.available2010-10-08T13:50:41Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationBjørgo, T. (2005). Conflict processes between youth groups in a norwegian city: polarisation and revenge. European journal of crime, criminal law and criminal justice, 13(1), 44-74.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0928-9569
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/174596
dc.description.abstractThis study analyses the dynamics of conflict between two youth scenes in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand, commonly described as ʻthe neo-Nazisʼ, and their counterparts, referred to as ʻthe anti-racistsʼ or ʻthe Valla Gangʼ. The ʻneo-Nazisʼ regularly committed acts of violence against other youths belonging to the multi-ethnic youth scene. As such, many of these incidents could clearly be described as acts of racist violence or hate crime. However, through interviews with 50 participants from both sides it became clear that the acts of violence were part of a more complex set of conflict dynamics between youth groups. This involved processes of polarisation within and between the local youth scenes as well as cycles of generalised revenge based on widely shared notions of ʻone for all and all for oneʼ. Youth groups and individual actors switched between political identities and gang identities depending on the situation, and conflicts that initially had nothing to do with racism or anti-racism could easily become politicised. Based on an understanding of the conflict processes, several points of intervention could be identified. Several of the interventions gave positive outcomes.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherKluwer Law Internationalen_US
dc.subjectjuvenile crimeen_US
dc.subjectracismen_US
dc.subjectneo-nazismen_US
dc.subjectviolenceen_US
dc.subjectcriminologyen_US
dc.subjectpreventionen_US
dc.subjectthreatsen_US
dc.subjectvictimsen_US
dc.subjectrevengeen_US
dc.subjectgang related crimeen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectungdomskriminaliteten_US
dc.subjectgjengkriminalitet
dc.subjectrasisme
dc.subjectnynazisme
dc.subjectvold
dc.subjectkriminologi
dc.subjectforebygging
dc.subjecttrusler
dc.subjectofre
dc.subjecthevn
dc.subjectidentitet
dc.titleConflict processes between youth group in a norwegian city : polarisation and revengeen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.source.pagenumber44-74en_US


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