Policing Violent Extremism: How the Global War on Terror Meandered Into Local Municipal Policies in Sweden

The present article analyzes Swedish local municipal action plans for prevention of violent extremism. Sweden began adopting local policies for detection and prevention of violent extremism in 2015. Until today, about 40% of Swedish municipalities have done so. The present article examines how polic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christer Mattsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-03-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019837462