"Knarkrondellen" - En fallstudie om attraktiva narkotikahandelsplatser

For some time now “Rondellen”, a roundabout just outside Folkets Park in Malmo, has been a place where drug transactions are taking place out in the open street. Buyers know that sellers will be there for a quick and easy transaction in a central part of Malmo. But why are the transactions taking place just there? A lot of people are passing by who can watch them trade or the police can come around at any time. It seems like an unsafe place for the people doing the illegal activities. This thesis will investigate what the spatial factors that makes a place attractive as a sales location for narcotics are by looking at theories and prior research in both criminology and economic geography. By doing interviews with informants from different backgrounds and analyzing them together with the theory the thesis will try to identify the spatial factors that makes up why Rondellen has become an attractive place for doing drug transactions. The study will show that the spatial factors that makes a place attractive as a sales location for narcotics are both physical and abstract. The topographic position in absolute space, the places’ spatial organization in the mental space and also how the socially produced space is divided between the social actors using the place are all explanations to why Rondellen is more attractive than other places as an attractive spot for drug transactions. (Less)