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Understanding crowd conflict: social context, psychology and policing.

Stott; Radburn

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Abstract

This review draws together articles from a range of different disciplines to highlight the central role played by social context and policing in the dynamics of crowd conflict. Accordingly, the review highlights the importance and value of interdisciplinary dialogue both in attempts to advance theoretical understanding of the dynamics through which crowd events become violent but also in using knowledge to advance and defend democratic and human rights-based forms of state intervention into crowd events.

Acceptance Date Mar 10, 2020
Publication Date Mar 19, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Current Opinion in Psychology
Print ISSN 2352-250X
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 76 - 80
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.03.001
Keywords social identity, crowds, policing, police legitimacy, micro-sociology
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.03.001