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By Susan Easton In the wake of the recent riots, much attention has been given to the causes of the riots but an issue now at the forefront of press and public concern is the level of punishment being meted out to those convicted of riot-related offences. Reports of first offenders being convicted and imprisoned for thefts of items of small value have raised questions about the purposes of sentencing, the problems of giving exemplary sentences and of inconsistency, as well as the issue of political pressure on sentencers.
Sentencing the rioters
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"[...]As William Wall argues, we are living in neoliberal times, in which stru..."
As William Wall argues, we are living in neoliberal times, in which structural inequalities are at their highest since the 19 th Century, and we should begin to articulate these riots in this context; as Zygmunt Bauman pointed out ‘these are riots of defective and disqualified consumers’; or as Laurie Penny aptly argues, they are about grasping some power or rebalancing the balance of power. These are all thoughtful reflections to articulate the riots. They are all commendable, as are the videos of the Hackney Afro-Caribbean woman and the Darcus Howe interview. I am certain that, in times of discontent, we all gather our knowledge and experience to address the present, and expertise is not necessarily a required skill.Critical Legal Thinking › Riots and Ineloquence
In Nicholas Ray’s 1955 we follow the protagonist Jim Stark (James Dean) into delinquency. In this film, Nicholas Ray and the scriptwriter, Stewart Stern, set out to portray the life of the contemporary American teenager. The story is organized around Jim, recently arrived with his parents in a Los Angeles suburb in the hope that their son will conform and lose his rebellious streak and take ‘a right step in the right direction’. But Jim manages to get into trouble quickly. After being challenged by Buzz, the popular Kid in town, to a ‘chickie run’ (two drivers of stolen vehicles drive toward a cliff; the one that jumps out first is considered to be a chicken i.e., a coward and not a man), Jim finds himself surviving, while Buzz plunges off the cliff and dies.
Riots updated: Sennett, Rykwert, Till, de Botton, Tavernor and more on why Britain is burning
The AJ asks prominent architectural thinkers to comment on the architecture of our cities. More comments added daily. Cities incite riots - and herding people in high rise reservoirs of social aggression doesn’t help: if we didn’t have football and rugby matches to release it, however messily, we’d have many more, though riots are almost always triggered by specific incidents. Current hoody was fostered by the spectacle of the fat-cats bloated bonuses accompanying the ‘we’re all in it’ talk about cuts - as well as by the knowledge that the police was among the public services to be mutilated (which also goes for parks, youth centres), so was inevitably demoralised.
"[...]the riots are a political catastrophe, too. The right was already the gr..."
... the riots are a political catastrophe, too. The right was already the great beneficiary of the economic crisis. They are now set to emerge strengthened from these riots, too. This is far from an unpredictable consequence. When riots shook US cities in the 1960s and 1970s, millions of formerly Democratic-voting, white working-class people drifted into the waiting arms of the populist right. It was called ‘backlash', and it still influences the US political system today.By Owen Jones / @owenjones84 The riots are a catastrophe. They are a catastrophe for communities traumatised by looting, arson and petrol bombs – in many cases, such as Tottenham and Hackney, among the poorest areas in Britain. “It’s poor people like who suffer because of these riots,” one young woman told me just off Mare Street – where the worst of Monday’s rioting in Hackney took place – her obviously shaken child clutching her leg. They are a catastrophe for residents of London, Birmingham, Manchester and elsewhere, who feel terrorised in their own cities and even besieged in their own homes. Like all Londoners, I was pretty anxious on Monday as I cycled through Hackney at 10pm.
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The Interrupters: Doku-Trailer über Streetworker in Chicago
( Youtube Direktchicago , via MeFi ) X-Posting von den Filmfreunden : Trailer zur Doku „The Interrupters“ über Straßenarbeiter die mit gewalttätigen Jugendlichen und Gangs in Chicago arbeiten. Sieht sehr, sehr großartig aus. Viel mehr Infos auf der Website zum Film , der grade einen Kinostart in UK ergattert hat, vielleicht läuft der hier auch irgendwann. Filmed out of Chicago’s Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters follows a year in the life of the city as it grapples with the plague of urban violence.
The Interrupters: Doku-Trailer über Streetworker in Chicago
( Youtube Direktchicago , via MeFi ) X-Posting von den Filmfreunden : Trailer zur Doku „The Interrupters“ über Straßenarbeiter die mit gewalttätigen Jugendlichen und Gangs in Chicago arbeiten. Sieht sehr, sehr großartig aus. Viel mehr Infos auf der Website zum Film , der grade einen Kinostart in UK ergattert hat, vielleicht läuft der hier auch irgendwann. Filmed out of Chicago’s Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters follows a year in the life of the city as it grapples with the plague of urban violence.
Repetition, according to Hegel, plays a crucial role in history: when something happens just once, it may be dismissed as an accident, something that might have been avoided if the situation had been handled differently; but when the same event repeats itself, it is a sign that a deeper historical process is unfolding. When Napoleon lost at Leipzig in 1813, it looked like bad luck; when he lost again at Waterloo, it was clear that his time was over. The same holds for the continuing financial crisis. In September 2008, it was presented by some as an anomaly that could be corrected through better regulations etc; now that signs of a repeated financial meltdown are gathering it is clear that we are dealing with a structural phenomenon. We are told again and again that we are living through a debt crisis, and that we all have to share the burden and tighten our belts. All, that is, except the (very) rich.
Slavoj Žižek - on the riots in UK 201108 - Shoplifters of the World Unite · LRB 19 August 2011