Why Criminology can help us

understand the 2011 Summer

Riots……

That’s nothing, You should see his pictures!

That’s a lovely baby you have!

Daniel J. Boorstin (1992) – ‘The

Image’

Riots

Summer

= Boris, a Broom, a fire, and

Footlocker+ 2011

Criminology helps us

to understand these

events by ‘unpacking’

them in a structured,

coherent, and

analytical fashion……

WHO?

WHERE?

WHAT?WHY?

WHEN?

> Anomie?> Strain?> Class Consciousness?> Sex-Role Theory?> Criminogenic Capitalism?> Labelling?> Crisis of Masculinities?> Status Frustration?> Socialisation?> Rational Choice?> Marginalisation?> Relative Depraivation?> Post-Modern Crisis of Identity?> Ecology?

> Moral Panics> Folk Devils> Deviancy Amplification?> Subcultures?> Law Makers?> Glocalisation of Crime?> Selective Enforcement?> Underclass?> Control & Repression?> Military Policing?> Corporate Crime?> Operationalizing Crime?> Victimisation?> The Media & News-Values?> Social Networking?> Crime Reduction

> Offenders?> Victims?> Police?> Community Support?> The Public?> Journalists?> Politicians?> Businesses?> Banks?> Families?> Class? > Ethnicity?> Gender?> Age?

> Urban?> CBD?> Public Space?> Private Space?> Containment?> Cyberspace?> The Media?> Parliament?> Egypt?> Libya?

> 2011> Recession> Global Financial Crisis> Summer> Historical Context> Future> On-going> Isolated Instances> Modern / Post-Modern?

Criminology can thus help us gain a deeper, critical

understanding and appreciation of the events that unfolded

over the summer of 2011 in order to learn lessons in the

present and for the future.

Criminology can be used to break up the taken for granted ‘lay-

picture’ of the Summer 2011 Riots so we can examine the

individual pieces in detail and begin to reconstruct a much fuller,

clearer reality of it.