"This is, if you like, the answer to the hundred-dollar question: why do young males riot every Saturday? They do it for the same reason that another generation drank too much, or smoked dope, or took hallucinogenic drugs, or behaved badly or rebelliously. Violence is their antisocial kick, their mind-altering experience, an adrenaline-induced euphoria that might be all the more powerful because it is generated by the body itself, with, I was convinced, many of the same addictive qualities that characterize synthetically produced drugs."
-Bill Buford
Matt---have you been able to find more primary source documents? Are you looking at British newspapers and journals? And are you mining the bibliography from your book?
ReplyDeleteI am looking at some articles on the subject that I have gotten from the library. I don't really know how to get the newspapers and journals.
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