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Reading the Riots - London School of Economics
Reading the RiotsInvestigating England s summer of disorder1 The Riots in early August 2011 were arguably the worst bout of civil unrest in a generation. However, unlike in the early 1980s there was to be no Scarman-style inquiry into the causes. Meanwhile, politicians and others rushed to pronounce on what had happened, and why, and to offer an array of policy solutions. While several reviews and investigations were subsequently established, a number of very significant gaps in public understanding of the events remained. Most visible among these was what drew people out on to the streets for four nights in August and what motivated them? We d had Riots , but we knew little about the Guardian had been at the forefront of the reporting of the Riots , both in a traditional journalistic sense and much more broadly through the collection and analysis of data from the courts as arrests and prosecutions mounted up. Foreword by Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief, the Guardian, and Professor Judith Rees, director, London School of EconomicsReading the RiotsReading the Riots2 The opportunity was there to expand this work and to embark on something truly ambitious: a full-scale study of the Riots and their aftermath.
The riots in early August 2011 were arguably the worst bout of civil unrest in a generation. However, unlike in the early 1980s there was to be no Scarman-style inquiry into the causes. Meanwhile, politicians and others rushed to pronounce on what had happened,
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