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01 January 1991

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Race, Riots and Policing...
libdoc April=1994

Race, Riots and Policing. Lore and Disorder in a Multi-racist
Society

Author(s): Keith, Michael
Publisher: UCL Press 1993, 280pp. index
Keywords: Police Policing Racism Riots

PART ONE:
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 TWO: 1981:
That summer in London
3. Shaggy dog riots and copycat rioters: the "riots" in London
as moral panic
4. Blame, guilt and "causes" of "riots"
5. The reality of insurrection? Empiricism and the search for the
"average " rioter

PART THREE
"Grief"
6. Front line policing in the 80s
7. building stages for confrontation: power relations and
policing 8. Misunderstandings? The resolution of conflict by
consultation: assumptions and contradictions

PART FOUR:
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

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