The Causes and Consequences of Urban Riot and Unrest

This review explores those varied bodies of work that have sought to understand crowd behavior and violent conduct in particular. Although the study such collective was once considered central social science, this has long ceased be case many respects protest riot now receives relatively little attention, especially within criminology. In addition offering a critical overview field, argues favor an expanded conception its subject matter. recent times, scholarly concern increasingly been focused on questions etiology, i.e., asking how why events as riots occur, with consequence less attention is paid other, arguably equally important questions, including spread, they end, and, critically, what happens their aftermath. Accordingly, corrective, proposes life-cycle model riots.