Panorama

04/11/1991 (1991x39)

: 04, 1991

Last month, several British cities were blighted by rioting, and politicians and church leaders cast around for explanations for the civil unrest. Jane Corbin looks for the causes of inner-city riots and asks what can be done to prevent further unrest; whether the riots represent a failure of the Government's policies in deprived areas; and whether there is an "urban underclass" trapped in a vicious circle of poverty.