Workman argues that some of those taking part may adopt an ad hoc moral code in their minds - "these rich people have things I don't have so it's only right that I take it".
But there's evidence to suggest that gang leaders tend to have psychopathic tendencies, he says. This idea of a mob mentality can be found in football hooliganism.
Former Manchester United hooligan Tony O'Neill, says there is a similarity between this week's looting and the football violence he took part in for three decades. It boils down to the buzz, he says. You can't take away that thrill - the roar of the crowd.
That sense of a group of men, something's happening. For most, the motivation is the thrill, with the "free stuff" just a bonus. But not for the ringleaders who manipulate the mob to target high-value shops.
He recalls a rampage through Swiss Cottage in the s when Manchester United fans ended up looting a jewellery store. Queen Elizabeth II and members of the British royal family are to be secreted away to an undisclosed location outside London if a no-deal Brexit scenario incites riots, British media reported Sunday. British officials have revived Cold War emergency plans to relocate the royal family should there be riots in London if Britain suffers a disruptive departure from the European Union next month, two Sunday newspapers reported.
After Rahul Gandhi's comment in London about "no Congress involvement" in the anti-Sikh riots has caused political convulsions back home, especially in Punjab. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh took the Congress chief's statement ahead by limiting the party's role in the riots to the involvement of five leaders he named in the assembly. An accused in a post-Godhra riots case in Ode village of Anand district of Gujarat was today brought from London, where he was arrested, and produced before a local court, which remanded him in day judicial custody.
All British parents will be encouraged to take government-run parenting classes under plans due to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron, The Observer reported today. London's nightclubs, where sweaty revellers move and shake to thumping beats, are legendary. But now a quieter, more polite clubbing experience is gaining fans- the silent disco.
A French rally against the deadly Israeli offensive in Gaza once again descended into chaos on Sunday as protesters looted shops and riot police lobbed tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds. London Mayor Boris Johnson offered on Wednesday to be sprayed by water cannon to demonstrate that they are safe, after buying the riot control equipment for the capital despite having no permission to use it.
Pussy Riot vows no let-up in Russia human rights fight. Social and economic inequality "Britain is less equal, in wages, wealth, and life chances, than at any time since" the last major financial upheaval, the great crash of , says Mary Riddell in Britain's Telegraph.
It's almost poetic that when the riots broke out, the same ruling class that failed this angry "lost generation" was vacationing abroad, "parked on sun-loungers, as London burned.
A weak police response This outbreak of "mass criminality" was "unleashed by an insufficiently tough police reaction to the initial incident," says Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast. Because the cops didn't crack down right away, it essentially "gave permission for dozens of sheer thugs to come and loot and burn the neighborhood.
High rates of youth unemployment Given the scope and coordination of the rioting, "this is clearly an event with far deeper causes than simple random hooliganism," says Doug Saunders in Canada's Globe and Mail. Most of the looters and vandals are under 20, and they're destroying the same low-income neighborhoods they live in, where public housing is thick and job opportunities thin.
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