Sports, and the fans that follow them, are everywhere. Sport Fans: The Psychology and
Social Impact of Fandom examines the affective, behavioral, and cognitive reactions of fans …

Social science research conducted since the late 1970's has contributed greatly to society's
ability to mitigate and adapt to natural, technological, and willful disasters. However, as …

The authors examined the crowd sections of 20 introduction to sociology textbooks, coding
them for the presence of seven crowds myths—claims about crowds that have no empirical …

American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in
the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erupted across American cities. Though the …

This book investigates various public aspects of the management, use, and control of social
media by police agencies in Canada. This book aims to illustrate the process by which new …

To most people it seems perfectly obvious that alcohol use is one of the main reasons why
sports spectators exhibit violent behavior. However, most drinking among sports spectators …

Thousands rioted in London in August 2011, with the police losing control of parts of the city
for four days. This event was not an ethnic riot: participants were ethnically diverse and did …

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the problem of Internet child
pornography that spotlights the connection between technology and behavior, presenting …

Riots are extreme events, and much of the early research on rioting suggested that the
decision making of rioters was far from rational and could only be understood from the …

This article combines a statistical analysis with qualitative research to investigate the
dynamics of collective violence in one of its most recurrent forms—the food riot. Using an …