THE CONVERSATION: The psychology of riots – and why it’s never just mindless violence

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– and which followed the shooting by police of Mark Duggan – spread from London to some cities, but not others?

Seen in this light, the Joker’s actions didn’t merely invoke a Hobbesian dystopia but instead are better understood as unwittingly galvanising a simmering anti-wealth movement brought about by structural inequality and injustice. And based on research on riots in multiple disciplines such as social psychology, history and criminology, the spread of the subsequent unrest would have been far from random.

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