Hot Spot ‘Knarkrondellen’

Hennen, Ina; Gerell, Manne

doi:10.18261/issn.1894-8693-2019-02-04

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“…Notes 1. Open drug markets have received further attention due to high profile incidents of parents picking up their kids from day-care located near an open drug market and being threatened by drug dealers (Hennen & Gerell, 2019). This has led many to speculate that open drug markets are a new phenomenon in Sweden but has also prompted some research on the topic.…”

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“…In recent years, the open use and dealing of drugs have received increased attention in Sweden (Hennen & Gerell, 2019), and such open drug markets are a common problem in societies around the globe (UNODC, 2009). Such places tend to exhibit an array of crime or nuisance issues, for instance in the form of street drinking, littering, begging, violence, intoxication, visible drug injections, loud behaviours and open smoking of cannabis (European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug addiction, EMCDDA, 2015).…”

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Open drug markets, vulnerable neighbourhoods and gun violence in two Swedish cities

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Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

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Gun violence is a serious issue in many countries across the globe. It has been shown that there is an elevated risk for a further shooting nearby within a short time span of a shooting incident, so-called near-repeat patterning. The present study presents new evidence on near-repeat patterning in Sweden, with a focus on neighbourhoods which the police have labelled as 'vulnerable'deprived neighbourhoods where criminal networks have a large impact on local communities. Such neighbourhoods tend to have open drug markets, and to have high levels of gun violence. The present paper analyses the association of open drug markets and vulnerable neighbourhoods with gun violence and near-repeat patterning of gun violence in two Swedish cities. Our findings suggest that gun violence is strongly concentrated on open drug markets in vulnerable neighbourhoods, and that those locations in addition exhibit high risks for repeat shootings after an initial shooting event. We propose that the police can use this knowledge to improve practices to prevent or disrupt gun violence.

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Open drug markets, vulnerable neighbourhoods and gun violence in two Swedish cities

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Magnusson

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Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

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Konsten att göra (sprut)utbyten: Sprutbytets betydelse i skärningspunkten mellan politik, yrkespraktik och människors vardagsliv

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The Art of Needle Exchange: The Significance of Needle Exchange Programs at the Intersection of Politics, Professional Practice, and People's Everyday Lives This doctoral thesis discusses how social meanings are constructed in needle exchange programs. For nearly four decades, Sweden has implemented needle exchange programs to prevent the spread of bloodborne viral infections. However, a restrictive drug policy and resistance to harm reduction efforts have led to limitations in access to these programs, both in terms of geography and through an exclusionary regulatory framework. The effectiveness of needle exchange programs in reducing the risk of infection associated with injection-related behaviour is clearly positive. However, there are limited scientific studies on the more socially oriented meanings of needle exchange programs. With needle exchange programs as a physical and social place, the overarching aim of this thesis is to understand how the creation of social meanings of needle exchanges is achieved through time, space, and social interaction, primarily between the program's visitors and its staff. The empirical material primarily consists of 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observations and informal conversations at two needle exchange programs in southern Sweden, as well as in the everyday lives of individuals who visit these programs. Through extensive ethnographic narratives and analyses based on theories of everyday life, resistance, time, and gifts, the thesis demonstrates that needle exchange programs hold multiple meanings created through interactions between visitors and staff. Two concurrent and parallel tracks contribute to understanding what needle exchange programs mean to those who visit them. One track starts with a counterproductive regulatory framework where requirements and rules result in some visitors coming less often than they need to or not at all. The other track involves countless material and relational exchanges that foster positive experiences of the needle exchange program, turning it into a place of social hope and a changed future. One of the thesis's most significant findings concerns the social work that takes place at the needle exchange program in the interactions between visitors and staff. These interactions also occur at the intersection of the norms and hierarchies of the drug world and the Swedish dream of a drug- free society. In the waiting room of the needle exchange program, negotiations are constantly underway to maintain it as a place of hopeful encounters, as opposed to a destructive refuge.

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Hot Spot ‘Knarkrondellen’

Cited by 2 publications

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Open drug markets, vulnerable neighbourhoods and gun violence in two Swedish cities

Open drug markets, vulnerable neighbourhoods and gun violence in two Swedish cities

Konsten att göra (sprut)utbyten: Sprutbytets betydelse i skärningspunkten mellan politik, yrkespraktik och människors vardagsliv

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