The use of information technology is a cross-cutting actively developing element in the method investigating mass riots, which modern conditions acts as factor success this work. article reveals features criminal prosecution riots using technology. main areas automated data banks and retrieval systems investigation are determined. Domestic foreign possibilities technologies organization investi...

Social unrest often begins suddenly and spreads quickly. What is the information that drives its diffusion? How this transmitted? And who responds to information? We present a general framework emphasizes three aspects of diffusion process: networks through which travels, whether about repression affects participation, role organizers. use derive empirical hypotheses we test in context English ...

This paper examines the recollections of civilians about May 1998 riots in Indonesia, as told an anonymous online survey. These caused deaths estimated 1000 people and saw targeted attacks on Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community, including state-led mass sexual violence against Chinese-Indonesian women girls. Despite their scale, there has never been any official redress for these they remain a...

This review explores those varied bodies of work that have sought to understand crowd behavior and violent conduct in particular. Although the study such collective was once considered central social science, this has long ceased be case many respects protest riot now receives relatively little attention, especially within criminology. In addition offering a critical overview field, argues favo...