'What has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike.' - Wilhelm Reich

A month on from August’s unprecedented riots in England, we can begin to ask the host of

questions needed to uncover why they occurred and what they mean. Tim Newburn and

the LSE’s Department of Social Policy, together with the Guardian newspaper, the Joseph

Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundation are beginning a three-month indepth study into the causes and consequences of the recent riots.