This post is by Colin Sumner and was first published on his Crime Talk website which is highly recommended particularly for those with an interest in criminology. The recent UK riots were public disorders waiting to happen. Many of the struts and supports of post-war civic idealism had over the past three decades been kicked away, disregarded or even dismantled. However culpable and predatory the looters were, and two wrongs certainly do not make a right, they were no more so than the MPs, bankers, hedge funds, police and media who over the last few years had set an appalling example of amorality and greed, destroying far more property, reducing asset values far more, and disrespecting more cherished moral values than the rioters. This is a timeline that looks distinctly causal. Since 1979 there has been so much cultural and political emphasis on entrepreneurialism, property,
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