Race, Riots and Policing: Lore and Disorder in a Multi-Racist Society

Abstract

Part 1 Lost times, forgotten places: from bad to worse? - policing and British Black communities contested fictions - local histories and glimpses of the past. Part 2 1981: that summer in London - Shaggy dog and copycat rioters the riots in London as a moral panic blame, guilt and causes of riots the reality of insurrection? - empiricism and the search for the average rioter. Part 3 Grief: front line policing in the 1980s building stages for confrontation - power relations and policing misunderstandings? - the resolution of conflict by consultation assumptions and contradictions. Part 4 Discipline and punish? - strategies of control the local reality of racial subordination policing reconstructions of reality constructing characters: racialization and criminalization into the 1990s.