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"Forthcoming"
Preventing Collective Violence (Crime Prevention Studies, vol. 28)
Tamara Madensen and Johannes Knutsson, eds..
(hard cover)
2010, 230 pages
ISBN: 978-1-881798-90-3
$53.50

The uses of situational crime prevention to prevent collective disturbances and riots are described in this volume. Chapter topics tentatively include: a comparative observational study of protest and football events; taming an annual Halloween street party; the new Swedish special tactical approach crowd management; applying the “flashpoints” model of public disorder to a riot situation in the UK; crowd behavior and its implications for crowd policing; football, crowd dynamics and public order policing; the application of situational crime prevention to crowd violence; peacemaking strategies in crowd events; and the police use of active and passive peace-making strategies at mass events.

Contributors tentatively include: Otto M. J. Adang, Ingrid Hylander and Kjell Granstrom, Stefan Holdersson and Johannes Knutsson, Tamara Madensen and John Eck, Joel Plan and Michael Scott, Steve Reicher, and David Waddington.

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