Riots and Political Protest

Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Teesside University and Co-Director of the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology. He is the author of Badfellas (Berg, 2001) and co-author of Bouncers (Oxford University Press, 2003), Violent Night (Berg, 2006), Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture (Willan, 2008), Rethinking Social Exclusion (Sage, 2013) and Revitalizing Criminological Theory (Routledge, 2015). He is also the co-editor of New Directions in Crime and Deviancy (Routledge, 2012) and New Directions in Criminological Theory (Routledge, 2012). Steve Hall is Professor of Criminology at Teesside University and Co-Director of the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology. He is author of Theorizing Crime and Deviance (Sage, 2012), and co-author of Revitalizing Criminological Theory (Routledge, 2015), Rethinking Social Exclusion (Sage, 2013), Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture (Routledge, 2008) and Violent Night (Berg, 2006). He is also the co-editor of New Directions in Criminology (Routledge, 2012).James Treadwell is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the best-selling textbooks Criminology (2006) and Criminology: The Essentials (2012). He is perhaps best known as an ethnographer, and he has published articles in a number of leading criminology and criminal justice journals.Daniel Briggs is Professor of Criminology at the Universidad Europea in Madrid. He is the author of Deviance and Risk on Holiday (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and Crack Cocaine Users (Routledge, 2012) and co-author of Culture and Immigration in Context (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and Assessing the Impact and Use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Policy Press, 2007). He is also the editor of The English Riots of 2011 (Waterside Press, 2012).