Reading the riots
A data-driven study into the causes and consequences of the August 2011 riots
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Film – due to be broadcast at 9pm – was based on testimony of interviews conducted for Guardian and LSE research
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Director of public prosecutions challenges received wisdom that heavy sentences for rioters worked as an effective deterrence
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Sentencing rulebook was 'torn up and thrown away', magistrate says, but prosecutors argue harsher punishments were justified
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Tim Newburn: Was the remand system used appropriately, was due process sufficiently observed and were the stiff sentences justified?
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Reading the Riots spoke to people with various experiences of the justice system, including a judge, lawyers and a looter
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Editorial: Politicians have too often tended to pander to the police's own old view that extra spending guarantees increased public safely
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