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RIOTS, URBAN PROTEST AND SOCIAL POLICY: THE INTERPLAY OF REFORM

01 January 1991

RIOTS, URBAN PROTEST AND SOCIAL POLICY: THE INTERPLAY OF REFORM
AND SOCIAL CONTROL
refdoc August=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = P62153 , Acc Date = 01-Jan-88
J Solomos , University of Warwick Centre for Research in Ethnic
Relations
Coventry: UWCRER, Dec 1986 44p (Policy Paper in Ethnic Relations
No. 7) RP62153A

Outlines the theoretical guidelines used in the report to analyse
responses to urban protest in the 1980s and bases it partly on
the comparative experience of the United States. Explores some
aspects of Murray Edelman's arguments and their applicability,
to the ways in which the post 1980 riots in Britain have
processed. Briefly looks at confrontations that took place
between blacks and whites in a number of localities prior to 1980
and continues with the events in Bristol in 1980 which awakened
popular opinions to the dangers, and concretised these fears
around the specific form of street disturbances involving violent

confrontation with the police. Examines the period from 1985 when
violence was experienced firstly in Handsworth and then in
Brixton, Toxteth and Tottenham. Looks at the implications for the
future and concludes that the prospects do not look very bright.

United Kingdom, ethnic minorities, violence, racial tension,
disorder, public disorder, law and order, black youth, young
people, community relations, media, television, Scarman inquiry,
unemployment, urban deprivation, inner city, social conditions,
Broadwater Farm, politics, police

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