TY - JOUR
AU1 - Waddington, David
AU2 - King, Mike
AB - Abstract:  Following the publication in 1895 of Gustav Le Bon's seminal work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, psychological explanations of collective disorder unremittingly emphasised the supposedly anomalous and irrational nature of the phenomenon. Recently, however, this ‘classical’ theoretical tradition has been supplanted by increasingly enlightened social psychological and socio‐political approaches which emphasise the importance to our understanding of the contexts, dynamics and underlying meanings of episodes of public disorder. This article outlines the evolution of these theoretical perspectives and notes the extent to which they appear to have induced corresponding shifts in police public order strategy.
TI - The Disorderly Crowd: From Classical Psychological Reductionism to Socio‐Contextual Theory – The Impact on Public Order Policing Strategies
JF - The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2005.00393.x
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-disorderly-crowd-from-classical-psychological-reductionism-to-hMFL27das1
SP - 490
EP - 503
VL - 44
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -