This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy, BSc in International Social and Public Policy and Economics, BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics and BSc in Social Policy and Sociology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students. This course is only available to third year undergraduate students
This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy, BSc in International Social and Public Policy and Economics, BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics and BSc in Social Policy and Sociology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students. This course is only available to third year undergraduate students
Courses in Social Policy will follow the Teaching Model which has been adopted by the Department of Social Policy during the period of the pandemic. This is outlined HERE:?https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/Current-Students/teaching-in-the-department-of-social-policyThis course will be taught through a combination of either a recorded lecture plus a follow-up Q and A session or a ?live? on-line lecture; and classes/seminars of 1-1.5 hours (with size and length of classes/seminars depending on social distancing requirements).Further information will be provided by the Course Convenor in the first lecture of the course. The course will be delivered in Michaelmas term.
Students will be required to write and submit one piece of formative coursework for assessment and feedback. This will be an essay outline - in effect the outline of their summative essay, including a full introductory paragraph.
Katz, J. (2016) Culture within and culture about crime: The case of the ?Rodney King riots?, Crime, Media, Culture Moran, M. and Waddington, D. (2015) Recent riots in the UK and France: Causes and commonalities, Contention, 2, 2, 57-73 Newburn, T. (2015) The 2011 English riots in recent historical perspective, British Journal of Criminology, 55, 1, 375-392 Newburn, T. (2021) The causes and consequences of urban riot and unrest, Annual Review of Criminology, 4, 53-71 Reicher, S. D. (1984) The St Pauls? riot: An explanation of the limits of crowd action in terms of a social identity model, European Journal of Social Psychology, 14, 1-21 Waddington, D. (1998) Waddington Versus Waddington: Public Order Theory on Trial, Theoretical Criminology, 2: 373-394 Additional reading: Castells, M. (2015) The Egyptian Revolution, in Goodwin, J. and Jasper, J.M. (eds) The Social Movements Reader, Oxford: Blackwell King, M. and Waddington, D. (2006) Flashpoints revisited: a critical application to the policing of anti-globalization protest, Policing and Society, 15, 3, 255-282 Marx, G. (1972) Issueless riots, in Short, J. and Wolfgang, M. (eds) Collective Violence, Chicago: Aldine Newburn, T., Cooper, K., Deacon, R. and Diski, R. (2015) ?Shopping for Free?? Looting, consumerism and the 2011 riots, British Journal of Criminology, 55 (5): 987-1004 Proctor, R., Crump, J., Karstedt, S., Voss, A. and Cantijoch, M. (2013) Reading the riots: what were the police doing on Twitter?, Policing and Society, 23, 4, 413-36 Stott, C.? and Drury, C. (2017) Contemporary understanding of riots: Classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach, Public Understanding of Science, 21, 1, 2-14
Coursework (100%, 3000 words) in the LT. The coursework (100%) will comprise a single summative essay. Students will have considerable input in deciding the precise focus of their individual summative work.