1st Edition
Race, Riots and Policing Lore and Disorder in a Multi-racist Society
Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Part 1 Lost Times, Forgotten Places 1. From Bad to Worse? Policing and British Black Communities 2. Contested Fictions: Local Histories and Glimpses of the Past Part 2 1981: That Summer in London 3. Shaggy Dog Riots and Copycat Rioters: The "Riots" in London as a Moral Panic 4. Blame, Guilt and "Causes" of "Riots" 5. The Reality of Insurrection? Empiricism and the Search for the "Average" Rioter Part 3 "Grief" 6. Front Line Policing in the 1980s 7. Building Stages for Confusion: Power Relations and Policing 8. Misunderstandings? The Resolution of Conflict by Consultation: Assumptions and Contradictions Part 4 Discipline and Punish? 9. Strategies of Control: the Local Reality of Racial Subordination 10. Policing Reconstructions of Reality 11. Constructing Characters: Racialization and Criminalization into the 1990s. Appendix. Bibliography. Index of Authors Cited. Subject Index.
Biography
Michael Keith
