Preventing crowd violence
By: edited by Tamara D. Madensen, Johannes Knutsson
Series: Crime prevention studies -- v. 26; Crime prevention studies -- v. 26.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers; Lynne Rienner Pub
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781588267535
Subjects: Riots; Prevention; Crowds; Mobs; Violence; Public safety
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- 1.; title: Introduction  -- Johannes Knutsson -- 2.; title: From Crisis to Opportunity: New Crowd Psychology and Public Order Policing Principles  -- Stephen Reicher -- 3.; title: Crowd Dynamics and Public Order Policing  -- Clifford Stott -- 4.; title: Initiation and Escalation of Collective Violence: An Observational Study  -- Otto M. J. Adang -- 5.; title: Police Use of Active and Passive Mitigation Strategies at Crowd Events  -- Kjell Granstrom -- 6.; title: Policing the British G8 Protests: A Contextualized Analysis  -- David P. Waddington -- 7.; title: Crowd-Related Crime: An Environmental Criminological Perspective  -- John E. Eck -- 8.; title: The Police and Major Event Planning: A Case Study in Las Vegas, Nevada  -- Tamara D. Madensen -- 9.; title: Trick or Treat? Policing Halloween in Madison, Wisconsin  -- Michael S. Scott -- 10.; title: Dialogue Policing: A Means for Less Crowd Violence? -- Johannes Knutsson.