Race, Riots and Policing: Lore and Disorder in a Multi-Racist Society

by Michael Keith

Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either crude state conspiracy theories or pathological portrayals of Black communities. Instead, the author places police/Black conflict in a geographical and historical context. A rigorous analysis of recent riots in London, informed by theoretical debates at the time, allowed Keith to demonstrate that both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103242205X
• ISBN13: 9781032422053
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages