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1	The Transatlantic Threads of Nolltolerans : Tracing Swedish Newspaper Discourse Through the Lens of Americanization Fillios, Xanthe January 2024 (has links) Most people don’t usually conjure the image of American policing methods in the Swedish police. The early-to-late 1990s would oversee a push to tackle what was then seen as rising crime and a battle over the subway a decade before in New York City. This style of policing, called Broken Windows would become mythicized in certain political circles about how it was able to reverse the trends of societal decline. It wasn’t soon after that Broken Windows had found itself in two Swedish law enforcement models over a span of fifteen years. By using the theory of Americanization, or how this transatlantic exchange of ideas had impacted important newspaper discourse–we can learn how once-American ideas, like Broken Windows, become new cultural concepts in Swedish journalistic discourse over time. Americanization Broken Windows Nolltolerans U.S.A. Sweden New York City Stockholm Graffiti Rudy Giuliani Bill Bratton History Historia Law and Society Juridik och samhälle