Looting 'fuelled by social exclusion'

-          The difference between looting and rioting is that rioters causes problems in the society by protesting and causing general problems, usually because they’re angry and feel that something’s wrong with the society.  Looting on the other hand basically means stealing and taking stuff that doesn’t belong to you.

-          Meanings:

social exclusion - not fitting into the society, and that the society makes outsiders.

disregard social norms  - neither caring or obeying the rules in the society.

high-unemployment – many inhabitants without jobs

criminologist - scientist on the theme criminality

opportunism - doing things you usually wouldn’t have done,  just because you get the chance

lack of intervention - lack of action, participation and influence.

consumerism - using more than you need and the need of having lots of things. The material society is one factor causes people to consume more and more.

catalyst of unrest, - The trigging factor for a case or event. (Something that lit fires in peoples mentality).

-          I think this could have happened in Oslo, but not in Trondheim. In Oslo there’s way more people and it would have been much easier to create that kind of mob, but it still . Here in Trondheim it would have been even harder and there’s better living conditions for everybody here than in Oslo and way better than in London. Of course the looting itself could happen anywhere but here in Norway overall people have enough money and don’t need to steal and know that the punishments will cause a lot of problems for them later.

-          The social conditions in England is very variable, the upper class inhabitants lives in luxury while the lower class inhabitants live in ghettoes and getting a good education is hard and therefore it’s hard to get a decent job. This unfair system could have caused a lot of anger in the lower classes which may have caused the riots.