Tracing structural racism in Swedish policing: Laws, practices, and technologies of criminalized difference
Journal: Punishment & Society
Year: 2024

In 2008, the Swedish legislature removed any references to race and racial difference, formalizing a post-racial discourse. This has resulted in both the near impossibility of proving discrimination based on racialized difference, and a formal denial of racial discrimination as a social and structural problem. This article attempts to circumscribe these difficulties by suggesting an approach for tracing structural racism in Swedish policing. We argue that a claim of structural racism in policing