The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors take to the streets. Riots
disrupted many Western cities and new protest movements emerged, keen to address a …

Drawing on motivational posturing theory (MPT) and procedural justice theory (PJT), this
article makes recommendations for how best to secure compliance with social distancing …

Do offenders have the right to be rehabilitated and should the state be responsible for their
rehabilitation? Should the public expect punitive and coercive approaches to offender …

In 2020, anti-racist campaigns mobilising under the banner of Black Lives Matter challenged
liberal reforms to policing as they made calls to defund the police. In the same year, the UK …

The present study applied a narrative analysis upon rioter accounts of their motivations
during the August 2011 England riots. To the authors' knowledge, this piece of research was …

Though the 2011 'riots' attracted a huge amount of political, media and academic attention,
the state's punitive reaction to the unrest received far less analysis, despite being …

In many contexts, social media has been considered as a group of tools that facilitates
people's access to freedom and democracy. But this view is challengeable. In this study, two …

The onset of the global economic crisis in 2008 has ushered in a new era of riot and protest.
A timeline of significant episodes of what has been variously described as social contention …

This chapter explores the juncture of feminist and anti-racist struggle across several fronts
that came to characterise the politics of sisterhood within the Abasindi Cooperative …

Figure 2.1: President Barack Obama replies to a question asked by a Twitter user using the
hashtag# askpotus on May 2015. A number of users try to participate in the exchange by …