Newburn, Tim 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-1703
(2025)
The city and collective violence.
In:
Handbook on Cities and Crime.
Edward Elgar, pp. 311-328.
ISBN 9781800375703
Abstract
The focus of this chapter is on crowd or collective violence, sometimes referred to, broadly speaking, as rioting. Work in this field has a lengthy history, one which grew out of nineteenth-century concerns with collective behaviour, the potential for revolution and, initially at least, focused on the supposed irrationality of crowds. More recently, such approaches have been superseded by work that has highlighted the patterns, structures and rationality of crowd violence, often viewing it through the lens of political protest. Having examined the broad contours of the history of work in this field, the chapter offers a general approach to thinking analytically and comparatively about the study of contemporary urban collective violence.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | © Dietrich Oberwittler and Rebecca Wickes 2025 |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences K Law |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2025 13:51 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2025 13:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129361 |
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