3. 8thAugust, 2012
Would you go into JD?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=oq1oonrfK8I&feature=related
• What would stop you?
- Religious faith
- Parental values
- Societal morals?
- Fear of reprisal?
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5. “Its time we stopped hearing
all this (you know) nonsense
about how there are deep
sociological justifications for
wanton criminality and
destruction of peoples’
property.
“Whatever peoples’ grievances
may be it does not justify
smashing up someone’s shop,
wrecking their livelihood and
kicking them out of a job.”
Boris Johnson, Mayor of
London, visiting Clapham on
Tuesday 9th August 2011;
reported in national press and
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6. “Do not deplore,
do not laugh, do
not hate, but
understand.”
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7. Who were the rioters?
MoJ figures revealed that, where ethnicity
was recorded, 33% of those appearing in
the courts on riot-related charges were
white, 43% were black and 7% Asian. The
figures varied significantly from area to area,
often closely resembling the ethnic makeup
of the local population: in London, 32% of
defendants were white, in Merseyside, the
figure was 79%
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8. Avery Gordon
“Almost everywhere and
at all times poor people
of colour, ethnic/
religious minorities,
migrants and dissidents
are over represented in
prisons.”
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9. Stop and search
• 1993 Young black
males were 5 times
more likely than
whites to be stopped
by police
• In 2010 Black men
are 26 times more
likely than white
people to be stopped
and searched
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10. Higher levels of custodial
Convicted black
offenders 17% more
likely to be jailed
immediately
Since 1998 there
have been 333 deaths
in police custody –
not a single
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11. Mass imprisonment
In 2010 Black prisoners make up 15% of the
prisoner population and this compares with 2.2%
of the general population – there is greater
disproportionality in the number of black people in
prisons in the UK than there is in the United
States.
The number of black people jailed in England and
Wales is seven times larger than the amount they
make up of the population.
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12. Craig Haney On the
supermaximum prison
The new social order that is emerging is
defined by three deformed and dependent
classes of people: a prison class housed in
a network of prison, a class of jailers who
service the network and a class of
professional legal and administrative elites
who decide into which of the other two
categoris the bulk of the population with be
placed.
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13. “It wasn’t political, it was
shopping”
The riots weren’t about
protest, unemployment
or cuts. They weren’t
about the future, about
tomorrow and a
person’s place in the
world. They were about
today, about now. They
were about instant
gratification.
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14. “Disqualified consumers”
Revolutions are not staple
products of social inequality;
but minefields are.
Minefields are areas filled
with randomly scattered
explosives: one can be
pretty sure that some of
them, some time, will
explode – but one can’t say
with any degree of certainty
which ones and when.
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