Race, Riots and Policing. Lore and Disorder in a Multi-racist Society

Race, Riots and Policing. Lore and Disorder in a Multi-racist Society

Contents: PART ONE: Lost times, forgotten places 1. From bad to worse? Policng and British black communities 2. Contested fictions: local histories and glimpses of the past PART TWO: 1981:That summer in London 3. Shaggy dog riots and copycat rioters: the "riots" in London as moral panic 4. Blame, guilt and "causes" of "riots" 5. The reality of insurrection? Empiricism and the search for the "average " rioter PART THREE: "Grief" 6. Front line policing in the 80s 7. building stages for confrontation: power relations and policing 8. Misunderstandings? The resolution of conflict by consultation: assumptions and contradictions PART FOUR: Discipline and punish? 9. strategies of control: the local reality of racial subordination 10. Policing reconstructions of reality 11. Constructing characteres: racialization and criminalization into the 1990s

Keith, Michael

UCL Press 1993, 280pp. index

SR P 272