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Pointers to works on the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights and other global frameworks are found in the Human Rights profile elsewhere on this site, along with comments on writing about human rights principles.

For an overview of contemporary demonstration regimes see General Principles Governing Freedom Of Assembly & Public Events (PDF) by Neil Jarman & Dominic Bryan.

For Australia insights are offered by the Unlawful Assemblies and Processions Act 1958 Issues Paper released in 1999 by the Victorian Parliament Scrutiny of Acts & Regulations Committee, Roger Douglas' Dealing with Demonstrations: The Law of Public Protest and Its Enforcement (Annandale: Federation Press 2004) and Batons & Blockades: Policing Industrial Disputes in Australasia (Beaconsfield: Circa 2005) by David Baker.

Legislation and practice in China is explored in Geor Hintzen's Protest Your Loyalty: An Analysis of the Rights of Assembly, Procession, and Demonstration in the People's Republic of China (Leiden: CNWS 1994).

Among works on rioting see Ian Hernon's Riot!: Civil Insurrection from Peterloo to the Present Day (London: Pluto 2007), Mark Kurlansky's Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (London: Cape 2006), Anthony Babington's Military intervention in Britain: from the Gordon Riots to the Gibraltar Incident (London: Routledge 1990), James Bond's The rules of riot: Internal Conflict and the Law of War (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 1974), Moral economy and popular protest: crowds, conflict and authority (Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000) edited by Adrian Randall & Andrew Charlesworth and Policing protest: the control of mass demonstrations in Western democracies (Minneapolis: Uni of Minnesota Press 1998) edited by Donatella Della Porta.

For historical perspectives see Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America, 1765-1910 (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources 1994) edited by Sylvia Arrom & Servando Ortoll, Paul Weinbaum's Mobs and demagogues: the New York response to collective violence in the early nineteenth century (Ann Arbor: UMI 1979), Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie's Carnival at Romans: a people's uprising at Romans, 1579-80 (London: Scolar Press 1980), Roger Manning's Village revolts: social protest and popular disturbances in England 1509-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1988), Roland Mousnier's Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China (New York: Harper & Row 1970), Andrew Charlesworth's An atlas of rural protest in Britain, 1548-1900 (Philadelphia: Uni of Pennsylvania Press 1983) and An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990 (London: Palgrave Macmillan 1996), Edward Thompson's Whigs and Hunters: the origins of the Black Act (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1975), George Rude's The crowd in history, 1730-1848 (New York: Wiley 1964), Buchanan Sharp's In contempt of all authority: rural artisans and riot in the west of England, 1586-1660 (Berkeley: Uni of California Press 1980) and Charles Tilly's lucid Regimes and Repertoires (Chicago: Uni of Chicago Press 2006).

Mechanisms for estimating the size of marches and demonstrations are highlighted elsewhere on this site.







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