King Mob
Perceptions, Prescriptions and Presumptions about the Policing of England's Riots
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Gorringe (0000-0003-3253-9417, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Michael Rosie (0000-0001-7270-4486, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 193-198 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.2521 |
| OpenAlex | W2149413562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 19 |
As journalists and academics, politicians and other commentators struggled to make sense of the social unrest across England, they reached for theoretical understandings of the crowd that have long since been discredited. The powerful imagery of the madding crowd has always been a popular trope with journalists, but what concerned us was the way in which even sociological commentators echoed such ideas. This paper, therefore, draws on our past research, informal interviews with senior police officers and media accounts to offer an analysis of the riots, how they were policed, and contemporary understandings of crowd behaviour. In so doing we question whether current understandings of collective behaviour, deriving from socio-political expressions of anger or protest, are equipped to make sense of the English riots. Similarly, we ask whether police public order tactics need to change. We conclude that the residual attachment to myths of the madding crowd continues to hamper the search for flexible, graded and legitimate means of managing social unrest
Anger · Criminology · Epistemology · Media studies · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unrest · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology
An integrated approach to crowd psychology and public order policing
Customs in common
Theory of collective behavior.
The crowd
The Disorderly Crowd
Identifying Common Causes of UK and French Riots Occurring Since the 1980s
The role of crowd theory in determining the use of force in public order policing
Two Critics in Search of a Bias
To Serve and Protect
A Critical Note on Conceptions of Collective Behavior
Issueless Riots
Riots
What a Difference a Death Makes
How Conflict Escalates
Mob Sociology and Escalated Force
| Citations per year | 0.54 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |