Riot in United States
Riot Definition
In criminal law. A tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more, assembling together of their own authority with an intent mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful. Hawk. P. C. c. 65, § 1. See 3 Blackf. (Ind.) 209; 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 72; 3 Rich. (S. C.) 337; 5 Pa. St. 88. “Riot” includes both “unlawful assembly” and “rout” (q.v.), and the further element that there shall be not only a step towards carrying out the unlawful intent of the assembly, but that they shall proceed therein in a violent and tumultuous manner.
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In criminal law. A tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three persons or more, assembling together of their own authority with an intent mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful. Hawk. P. C. c. 65, § 1. See 3 Blackf. (Ind.) 209; 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 72; 3 Rich. (S. C.) 337; 5 Pa. St. 88. “Riot” includes both “unlawful assembly” and “rout” (q.v.), and the further element that there shall be not only a step towards carrying out the unlawful intent of the assembly, but that they shall proceed therein in a violent and tumultuous manner.
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Further Reading (Articles)
A Riot That Never Was; Police Choose Their Words with Care and Escape a Big Pay-Out, Daily Mail (London); August 31, 2001; Loudon, Andrew
Remembering the Riots, First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; October 1, 1997; Nuechterlein, James
Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Boston Riots, Historical Journal of Massachusetts; January 1, 2002; Kennedy, Lawrence W.
Are UP Communal Riots Result of Vote Bank Politics?: Intelligence Agencies Have Indicated That There Is a Predetermined Political Design Behind the Recent Communal Riots in Muzaffarnagar. They Have Also Warned That Such Communal Riots Can Also Take Place in Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Even Haryana. Is There a Lack of Political Will to Control Communal Conflagration for Maintaining Vote Bank? DNA Explores, DNA : Daily News & Analysis; September 12, 2013; Rao, Rajesh Ghosh, Sanchari
Framing the Riots, Capital & Class; October 1, 2012; Cavanagh, Allison Dennis, Alex
Race Riots and Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919, The Journal of Southern History; August 1, 2010; Kornweibel, Theodore
21st Century Riots Need a 21st Century Response, South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); August 11, 2011
Race Riots, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; January 1, 2000
Britain’s 1981 Urban Riots, Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources; January 1, 2006
MUSEUM ADDS RIOT EXHIBIT UNDERSTANDING GOAL OF DISPLAY.(NEWS), The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); July 21, 2001
What makes a riot? Well, that depends; But folks affected by Dinkytown antics immediately knew that it was a riot.(NEWS)(Doug Grow), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); April 15, 2003; Grow, Doug
Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, Anthropological Quarterly; April 1, 2008; Vigil, James Diego
SO FAR, RIOT SUSPECT DODGES ACADEMIC SANCTION.(Local), Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); May 9, 2001; Garner, Joe
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Toward an Integrative Theory of Collective Violence, Journal of Social History; June 22, 2011; Messer, Chris M.
Pussy Riot: We Were Pummeled and Pepper Sprayed in Sochi, Newsweek; February 21, 2014; Nemtsova, Anna
Causes of the Riots: Political Engineering or Social Injustice?, Southeast Asian Affairs; January 1, 1998
Rumors and riots China, International Herald Tribune; July 9, 2008; Minxin Pei The New York Times Media Group
Mock Riot, Corrections Today; July 1, 2000; Clayton, Susan L. Daley, Gabriella M.
Guide To The Riot (Damages) Act 1886., Mondaq Business Briefing; August 26, 2011
Mapping Narratives: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots as a Case Study for Narrative-Based Geovisualization, Journal of Cultural Geography; June 1, 2010; Watts, Paul R.
Zoot Suit Riots in relation to Crime and Race
Zoot Suit Riots is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Zoot suit riots is the name given to a series of conflicts that occurred in the summer of 1943 in Los Angeles, California, between servicemen and Mexican American youths who wore outfits called zoot suits. The zoot suit consisted of a broad-shouldered drape jacket, balloon-leg trousers, and, sometimes, a flamboyant hat. Mexican and Mexican American youths who wore these outfits were called zoot-suiters. These individuals referred to themselves as pacbucos , which
is a name linked to the Mexican American generation’s rebellion against both Mexican and American culture. Pressures related to U.S. involvement in World War II contributed to the racial tensions that preceded the riots. Workers were needed in the agricultural and service sectors of the United States to fill the jobs vacated by those who were serving in the military. An agreement was reached with Mexico whereby temporary workers from Mexico were brought into the United States.
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Notes and References
- Entry about Zoot Suit Riots in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime