Abstract
The riots in 1980 and 1981 provoked a variety of explanations. It was claimed that ‘hey were the result of criminality, lack of parental guidance or indeed ‘seditious, sociological claptrap that is passed on in our schools as education’.2 Others identified social and economic deprivation as the prime cause, particularly escalating youth unemployment, abysmally inadequate housing, unacceptably low levels of social service provision and decay in central areas.3 A number of politicians, police officers and news media put forward the conspiracy theory; for example the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir David McNee, told journalists
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