Scarman and After : Essays Reflecting on Lord Scarman's Report, the Riots and Their Aftermath.

Front Cover -- Scarman and After: Essays reflecting on Lord Scarman's Report, the riots and their aftermath -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- PART 1: The Riots: Reactions and Explanations -- CHAPTER 1. The riots, Lord Scarman and the politicalagenda -- Reactions to the riots -- Criticisms of the police -- 'The lord they love to laud' -- The political agenda -- Legitimising political action -- Emasculation, delay and political inaction -- The riots, Lord Scarman and the political agenda -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2. The Scarman Report and explanations of -- Some theoretical approaches to the explanation of riots -- Political perspectives on the explanation of riots -- The Scarman Report -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART 2: The Riots: Perceptions and Distortions -- CHAPTER 3. The riots: perceptions and distortions -- Lord Scarman's perceptions -- The riots in Liverpool 8 and elsewhere -- The media under scrutiny -- Perceptions and distortions -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4. Eyewitness in Brixton -- Measured words or purple prose? -- A real battle? -- An exaggeration of the seriousness of the violence -- The real lesson of the disorders -- Postscript: changes in Brixton -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5. Eyewitness in Moss Side -- 'Tooling up' -- 'Under attack-send assistance' -- Why is it happening? -- 'Hellholes' -- Police attitudes and activities -- Cynicism and uneasiness -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6. The Brixton disorders -- 'Bad behaviour' by the police -- Approaching a point of confrontation -- The 'Sus' law: unjust and inflammatory -- The Brixton eruption -- Institutional racism: Lord Scarman's blinkered view -- Brixton in 1983: few serious changes -- CHAPTER 7. Reporting the riots: images and impact -- Depicting disorder-images of Toxteth -- The media's consistent interpretation.

Getting the story: news gathering -- Making sense of it: news presentation -- Rampaging crowds and sober citizens -- Dangerous streets and hooligan youth -- The black tide and the blue line -- Aliens and agitators -- Questions of impact: confused terms, confined debates -- Contagious behaviour -- 'Tooling up for trouble': reports and rumours -- The 'lessons' of Northern Ireland: petrol bombs and CS gas -- News reporting and 'law and order' politics -- 'The Yard fights back' -- 'The iron hand' and media influence -- Notes -- PART 3: The Policing Issues -- CHAPTER 8. The policing issues -- Prevention and discretion -- A tale of failure -- Recruitment, racial prejudice and training -- Handling public disorders -- Accountability, consultation and policing methods -- Investigating allegations of misconduct -- 'Unfailing patience and courtesy' -- Notes -- CHAPTER 9. Policing by consent -- Policing methods in a changing society -- Retaining public confidence -- New equipment and technology -- Computers and crime -- Training and the police service -- Notes -- CHAPTER 10. One-tier policing -- Principles of British policing -- Accountability and control -- The police and public support -- The methods of policing -- Riot equipment -- Discipline and complaints -- The disciplinary offence of racial discrimination -- Police training -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11. Partnership policing -- The police and politics -- The central dilemma of government -- The social contract -- Partnership policing: the police -- Partnership policing: the public -- Notes -- CHAPTER 12. Police and the public -- Accountability -- Consultation -- Complaints -- Recruitment -- The future -- Notes -- CHAPTER 13. The police, the community and accountability -- Accountability in its broadest sense -- Recruitment and selection of police officers -- The need for real accountability.

Restoring public confidence in the complaints system -- Community policing and accountability -- Adapting to a changed society -- PART 4: Unemployment, Racial Disadvantage and the Cities -- CHAPTER 14. Unemployment, Racial Disadvantage and the Cities -- The Kerner Report -- Unemployment: the growing problem -- Racial disadvantage and positive action -- Ineffective urban programmes -- The cities under stress -- Notes -- CHAPTER 15. Youth unemployment and urban unrest -- School-leavers' prospects -- The young people's experiences -- Ethnic minorities -- Unemployment and mobility -- Unemployment, crime and policing -- Notes -- CHAPTER 16. Black initiatives in Brixton -- The early years -- The second generation -- The post-school years -- The need for more self-generated economic activity -- The wider context -- The political tasks -- The relevance of Scarman -- The next step -- CHAPTER 17. Disadvantage and discrimination in cities -- Scarman and the social causes -- The question of the inner city -- The inner city's real problems -- Conservative approaches to the inner city -- The inner city and Scarman -- Notes -- CHAPTER 18. Equal respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity -- Racialism in Britain -- Scarman says nothing new -- Scarman missed the point -- What the Report does say -- What now needs to be done -- Notes -- CHAPTER 19. The need for positive action -- What is positive action? -- The Scarman Report and positive action -- The Government's record on positive action -- The private sector and equal opportunities -- The record of local government -- The attack on racial disadvantage -- The need for positive action -- Notes -- CHAPTER 20. The challenge to local government -- Lord Scarman's panaceas -- The role of the local authority -- Tackling racial discrimination and disadvantage -- The 'colour-blind' approach -- Confusion about the law.

Notes -- PART 5: Scarman and After -- CHAPTER 21. Scarman and after -- 'Urgent action is required' -- Youth demoralisation and estrangement -- Ineffectiveness and repudiation of political authority -- Issues, action and good intentions -- Notes -- CHAPTER 22. The view from the Government -- Recruitment to the police service -- Police training -- The police and the community -- Consultation and accountability -- Racial disadvantage and inner cities -- Conclusion-the challenge to us all -- Notes -- An epilogue -- Policing -- Law reform -- Social policy -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Accounts arid explanations of civil disorders -- The media -- Policing issues -- Racialism and racial disadvantage -- Inner city deprivation and urban politics -- Index.

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