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Lundh, Mattias LU (2017) STVK02 20162
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This paper examines how the Swedish police work with football-related disorder has changed. With a descriptive approach the paper analyses two reports from Brottsförebyggande rådet, an interview of supporterpolisen in Malmö and an interview of the President of MFF Support, the official supporters club of football club Malmo FF. The theory underlying the analysis is Critical Security Studies, two theories of crowd psychology as well as four principles for public order policing. These theories are the basis for five dimensions where the relevant parts of the material are categorized: social action, the view of the crowd, identity and community, communication and knowledge, and how the police affect crowd behaviour The analysis shows that the... (More)
This paper examines how the Swedish police work with football-related disorder has changed. With a descriptive approach the paper analyses two reports from Brottsförebyggande rådet, an interview of supporterpolisen in Malmö and an interview of the President of MFF Support, the official supporters club of football club Malmo FF. The theory underlying the analysis is Critical Security Studies, two theories of crowd psychology as well as four principles for public order policing. These theories are the basis for five dimensions where the relevant parts of the material are categorized: social action, the view of the crowd, identity and community, communication and knowledge, and how the police affect crowd behaviour The analysis shows that the police work with football-related disturbances have changed. The change consists primarily of that police actions, indirect and direct, are targeted at individuals rather than direct actions against entire groups. (Less)
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author
Lundh, Mattias LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
En beskrivande studie av polisens arbete i samband med högriskmatcher
course
STVK02 20162
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
public order policing, social identity, football-related disorder, security studies.
language
Swedish
id
8897551
date added to LUP
2017-02-08 15:19:19
date last changed
2017-02-08 15:19:19
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  abstract     = {{This paper examines how the Swedish police work with football-related disorder has changed. With a descriptive approach the paper analyses two reports from Brottsförebyggande rådet, an interview of supporterpolisen in Malmö and an interview of the President of MFF Support, the official supporters club of football club Malmo FF. The theory underlying the analysis is Critical Security Studies, two theories of crowd psychology as well as four principles for public order policing. These theories are the basis for five dimensions where the relevant parts of the material are categorized: social action, the view of the crowd, identity and community, communication and knowledge, and how the police affect crowd behaviour The analysis shows that the police work with football-related disturbances have changed. The change consists primarily of that police actions, indirect and direct, are targeted at individuals rather than direct actions against entire groups.}},
  author       = {{Lundh, Mattias}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Fotbollsrelaterade ordningsstörningar}},
  year         = {{2017}},
}