ABSTRACT
The theory argues that the nature of the state and the role it plays in the interactions between the social and economic classes is vitally important in the creation of dissident crowds and the nature of the police response to crowd events. There is no universal theory of the causes of crime and collective violence. There have been fierce debates on the role and influence of human nature on both individual and collective violent crimes. The debates came to a climax in February 1993 with the abduction and killing of two year old James Bulger, by two ten year old boys in Liverpool. Despite the Christian perspective on crime, which is mostly influenced and shaped by the Bible, the Islamic sources, the Qur’an and the Sunnah, do not refer to human nature as the source of criminality. Grievances which are caused by material deprivation are more visible and tangible than those which are caused by non material ones.
