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'ACAB? The police and the criminal justice system through the eyes of English Defence League activists'

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Dates:7 November 2017
Times:16:00 - 17:30
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Law
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Hilary Pilkington
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CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester)

The English Defence League, a ‘feet on the street’ anti-Islamist movement active in the UK since 2009, is widely considered to be a violent Islamophobic and racist organisation whose street demonstrations often lead to drink-fuelled violent interactions with police and counter-demonstrators.

Drawing on a three-year ethnographic study of English Defence League activism (2012-15), including interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events, this presentation will critically reflect on the gap between the movement’s public image and activists’ own understandings of it. It considers the attitudes to, and interactions with, the police at EDL demonstrations as well as activists’ personal experience of the criminal justice system. Notwithstanding high rates of arrest and conviction, the study revealed widespread cooperation with, and support for, the police. This, however, is accompanied by profound criticism of the criminal justice system as a whole, expressed in the notion of a ‘two-tier’ justice system, which, activists claim, allows ‘them’ to get away with things and fails to protect or recognise injustices towards ‘us’.

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Hilary Pilkington

Role: Professor of Sociology

Organisation: University of Manchester

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