There were many responses to the Riots in August 2011 that started in Tottenham, London and spread across Britain over the following five days. One major response is the Troubled Families Programme (Home Office, 2011) which was rolled out in November 2011 having been proposed in 2010 by the coalition government as scaled up version of the previous Labour government's Family Intervention Project which aimed to target 120,000 troubled families in order to break the so called cycle of offending. According to Sim (2012), such responses led to the further disenfranchisement of working class families, increasing the distance between what Marxists term the 'haves and have-nots', which are the upper and upper-middle classes (the haves) and the lower,
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This multi-agencies approach links to Foucault's responsibilization theory which according to Garland (1997) disperses the responsibility of crime control away from the government and towards other members of the community, thus reducing the possibility of blame put onto the government when things go wrong. This responsibilization can also be seen in the extensive use of CCTV during the aftermath of the riots to identify and prosecute those involved and was first called for during a speech by the Home Secretary (May, 2011) shown on BBC News during the second day of rioting. During this speech she blamed the communities for the recent events and encouraged the friends and families of those involved to turn them in, whilst evading and disputing and blame for the riots that was put towards the police or governmental responses. This was also, according to Garland (1996), evidence of the government recognising the limitations of current crime control measures, but instead of admitting this to society, they are putting the blame for deviant behaviour and the responsibility of crime control members of the community and other agencies whilst reducing focus on their own accountability. However, it …show more content…
However, as above, one critique of this would be that the CCTV should have been enough to deter at least some rioters, which of course it might have done, although not enough to actually minimise the impact of
This multi-agencies approach links to Foucault's responsibilization theory which according to Garland (1997) disperses the responsibility of crime control away from the government and towards other members of the community, thus reducing the possibility of blame put onto the government when things go wrong. This responsibilization can also be seen in the extensive use of CCTV during the aftermath of the riots to identify and prosecute those involved and was first called for during a speech by the Home Secretary (May, 2011) shown on BBC News during the second day of rioting. During this speech she blamed the communities for the recent events and encouraged the friends and families of those involved to turn them in, whilst evading and disputing and blame for the riots that was put towards the police or governmental responses. This was also, according to Garland (1996), evidence of the government recognising the limitations of current crime control measures, but instead of admitting this to society, they are putting the blame for deviant behaviour and the responsibility of crime control members of the community and other agencies whilst reducing focus on their own accountability. However, it …show more content…
However, as above, one critique of this would be that the CCTV should have been enough to deter at least some rioters, which of course it might have done, although not enough to actually minimise the impact of