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Let’s get real about the ‘riots’: Exploring the relationship between deprivation and the English summer disturbances of 2011

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Despite media and political rhetoric to the contrary, there is persuasive evidence to suggest an association between deprivation and those involved in the English riots of 2011, which continues to be downplayed when developing responses to crime and crime prevention policy. This study explores empirical evidence from two major cities in the North West of England, which highlights an association between deprivation and rioting in both criminal charge and sentencing data allowing further exploration of some of these issues. The paper argues that to mask the rioting as ‘mindless criminality’ is to ignore wider social-structural inequalities and to silence important messages contained in the rioting behaviour from disenfranchised youth and communities about the inequalities they suffer.

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Critical Social Policy

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Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

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0261-0183

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Volume 35, Issue 1 February 2015, pages 69-89

Subject(s)

Inequality
Social Exclusion
Relative deprivation
Disturbances

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