King mob: Perceptions, prescriptions and presumptions about the policing of england's Riots

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gorringe, Hugo ^a   Rosie, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowd theory; Negotiated management; Public order policing; Riots

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455206644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.2521     Document Type: Article

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