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Threat, prejudice and the impacts of the riots in England

De Rooij, Eline, Goodwin, Matthew J., Pickup, Mark (2015) Threat, prejudice and the impacts of the riots in England. Social Science Research, 51 . pp. 369-383. ISSN 0049-089X. (doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.09.003) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:54299)

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.09.003

Abstract

This paper examines how a major outbreak of rioting in England in 2011 impacted on prejudice toward three minority groups in Britain: Muslims, Black British and East Europeans. We test whether the riots mobilized individuals by increasing feelings of realistic and symbolic threat and ultimately prejudice, or whether the riots galvanized those already concerned about minorities, thus strengthening the relationship between threat and prejudice. We conducted three national surveys – before, after and one year on from the riots – and show that after the riots individuals were more likely to perceive threats to society’s security and culture, and by extension express increased prejudice toward Black British and East European minorities. We find little evidence of a galvanizing impact. One year later, threat and prejudice had returned to pre-riots levels; however, results from a survey experiment show that priming memories of the riots can raise levels of prejudice.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.09.003
Uncontrolled keywords: Prejudice; Riots; Minorities; Intergroup relations; Survey experiment; Threat
Subjects: J Political Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Matthew Goodwin
Date Deposited: 25 Feb 2016 16:57 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 11:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/54299 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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