AbstractA review of riot and riot participation research requires rejection of structural strain and deprivation-frustration-aggression explanations. The complex and varied riot phenomena to be explained require a model of purposive actors. Competing models are reviewed. A perception control theory explanation of riot participation is supported by experimental and ethnographic evidence.
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