Sadiya Akram: Article Analysis

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CJS 280-001 Akram, S. (2014). Recognizing the 2011 United Kingdom riots as political protest: A theoretical framework based on agency, habitus and the preconscious. British Journal of Criminology, 54(3), 375-392. Sadiya Akram purpose in her article is based on discussing a theoretical framework to be able to understand riots as well as the rioter, while keeping in mind the 2011 riots in the United Kingdom. She argues that rioting is a political action, but to be able to understand it you must theorize the identity of agency to be able to unwrap the act. Accordingly, the central thesis of her research is that rioting is a form of political protest as well as a delineate theoretical structure. Sadiya Akram first notes that most

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