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    August‚ London was tormented by riots where there were thousands of people in streets and the high amount of people resulted in chaos and a high level of police activity. The riots that are deemed to come from the economic class triggered a debate among political‚ social and academic figures. The debatable question is what caused the riots and who to blame. English comedian‚ actor‚ singer and famous TV person‚ Russell Brand‚ comments on the debate about the riots in London in his commentary ‘’Big

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    isn’t watching you”‚ Russell Brand In 2011 videos and reports about riots vandalizing the streets of London wandered through the Internet and the media to all parts of the world. Everybody’s eyes were on Britain. Especially it was big in Europe. Not one day passed without new pictures‚ new stories and new tragedies. But riots aren’t something new in the 21st century. Almost daily‚ both before and after the 2011 UK riotsriots and conflicts between civilians and authority occur across the world

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    Ashleigh Chávez Mr. Metro U.S. History H June 4‚ 2012 Gay Liberation Strongly influenced by occurring civil right movements gays began their own movement. The Stonewall Riot was the first major revolt in which gays fought back against those who oppressed them and it helped push forward the Gay liberation movement. There had previously been many violent events previous to stonewall that involve gay bashing and cruel treatment of gays. One night at the Stonewall Inn‚ what seemed to be normal night

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    political event. One of those songs is from my favorite rock band Sublime. The title of the song is April 29‚ 1992. It is a song talks about the riots that broke out in Los Angeles on April 29th. 1992. after four white police officers were acquitted by a largely white jury for beating an African American named Rodney King. It became one of the biggest riots in U.S history. On March 3‚ 1991 an African American by the name of Rodney King was driving at excessive speeds on the 210 freeway. He was

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    York State been treated rightly after the Attica Riot? Annotated Bibliography Michael E. Deutsch‚ Dennis Cunningham and Elizabeth M. Fink ”Twenty Years Later — Attica Civil Rights Case Finally Cleared for Trial” Social Justice‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 3 (45)‚ Attica: 1971—1991 A Commemorative Issue (Fall 1991)‚ pp. 13-25 This is a journal uses the commissioner‚ the director of the correctional‚ Russel Osward as a center role to recall the Attica Riot‚ condemning his failure of management of the prison

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    detailed account of the Burma Road Riot in Nassau‚ Bahamas. So many of the most dramatic and significant social events in the Bahamas history were played out on the stage of Bay Street and‚ as a result of these events‚ Bay Street was turn into a place where Bahamians came together in display of unity and a place where they sought to act out dissenting viewpoints. The Nassau Riot in 1942 was a short- lived

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    A second response to the English riots was surveillance‚ whereby CCTV was in fact present from the start of the riots‚ technically meaning that it should have regulated behaviour‚ which is one critique of this response. Michel Foucault’s ideas on punishment and crime are surrounding the exercise of power and domination‚ which can be seen through surveillance. He sees the purpose as being self-discipline through surveillance‚ through the shift in punishment from corporal punishment of the physical

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    US in the 60’s. Deemed “riots” by many and “rebellions” by black people of the time‚ events similar to those of July ‘64 during the Civil Rights era are hot topic as far as how they should properly be addressed from a historical point of view. The events of July ‘64 definitely did include a riot. However‚ simply labeling the entire 3 day period as a riot is an injustice to both the event itself and to the people of today looking at this event. The static label of a riot deprives the people of the

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    one of the most violent riots in the history of American Correctional System. This is often referred to as The New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot. The riot lasted for 36 hours‚ and in those 36 hours there were 33 deaths. There was one other inmate who dies a couple of months later due to the injuries incurred in that riot. It is estimated that about 200 inmates were severely injured or raped in the riot. It is no surprise that considering the gravity of the violence in the riot‚ the number of deaths

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    Part 1: Essay This essay will explore how deindividuation theory might explain the looting behaviour that can sometimes accompany crowd riots. The core concepts and assumptions of the deindividuation theory will be critically evaluated. The potential strengths and limitations of this theory will be considered‚ as an explanation of crowd looting. The social identity approach on crowd behaviour will be used in contrast of the deindividuation approach. Research and evidence will be used from social

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