My Criminal Friend:: Maneuvering Friendships and Abstaining from Crime in High-Risk Areas in Denmark

Mie Birk Haller; Thomas Friis Søgaard; Torsten Kolind; Mads Madsen; Geoffrey Hunt; Tobias Kammersgaard

doi:10.1177/14732254221104632

My Criminal Friend: Maneuvering Friendships and Abstaining from Crime in High-Risk Areas in Denmark

Mie Birk Haller^*, Thomas Friis Søgaard, Torsten Kolind, Mads Madsen, Geoffrey Hunt, Tobias Kammersgaard

^*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

This article highlights the perspective of 39 young men who live and have friends in a Danish high-risk neighborhood. We look into their use of microlevel tactics to socialize with crime-involved friends while managing to abstain from crime. Maintaining this balance was a constant everyday processual negotiation of friendship relations, moral obligations, and risk assessment. However, the most severe consequences of having criminal friends were to endure police control and potentially be known and registered by the police as criminals or ‘gang-affiliated’. In that way, the criminal justice system was deeply entangled in the social lives of these young people.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Youth Justice
Vol/bind	23
Nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	161-181
Antal sider	21
ISSN	1473-2254
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254221104632
Status	Udgivet - aug. 2023

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