The social movement‐countermovement relationship is most often one of competition. The
subject of police reform has become more complex after calls for greater restrictive police …

This review explores those varied bodies of work that have sought to understand crowd
behavior and violent crowd conduct in particular. Although the study of such collective …

In our everyday lives, we rely on routines that make tasks and interactions easier and
provide a sense of order--routines of greeting each other, getting to work, organizing the …

The 1968 account of the 1967 race riots, authored by the National Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission, thus the Kerner report), directly called into question …

Engaging scholarship from sociologies of security to protest policing, this article explores
how risk management and actuarial tools have been operationalized in Canadian policing …

Objective: to study changes inenforcement of low-level offenses and felonies in the City of
St. Louis, Missouri after the high-profile events in Ferguson. Methods: dialectical approach to …

Introduction: This paper identifies delegitimization strategies that illustrate a range of
attitudes of the Polish police towards individuals who resist the government and challenge …

Immediately after the Detroit violence of July 1967, President Johnson appointed the Kerner
Commission and ordered it to determine what had happened, why, and what could be done …

On its release in 1968, the Kerner report, with its “two societies” warning, was the subject of
intense public attention. However, within a year, concerns arose that the report's influence …

The rapid evolution and current ubiquity of social media as a form of communication calls for
a revision of many models of collective behaviour. In this paper, we modify a classic agent …