1. R. Wood, Youth Deaths: The Reality behind the ‘Knife Crime’ Debate (London: Institute of Race Relations, 2010), p. 4. For further details about the Stephen Lawrence case, see B. Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence, 2nd edn. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000); S. Cottle, The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence: Media Performance and Public Transformation (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2004); and S. Laville, ‘Stephen Lawrence Case: Timeline’, The Guardian, 3 January 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk
/(accessed 23 March 2012). More information on the Damilola Taylor case is available at ‘Damilola Taylor: Timeline’ (2006), BBC News,
http://news.bbc.co.uk
/(accessed 4 June 2012). Wood, Youth Deaths, and K. Barling (2007), ‘Teen Deaths on London’s Streets’, BBC News,
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/london/(accessed 4 June 2012), discuss the 2007–8 surge of street crime.
2. See J. Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (London and New York: Continuum, 2004) and J. Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator (London and New York: Verso, 2009); J. Spencer, ‘Emancipated Spectatorship in Adrienne Kennedy’s Plays’, Modern Drama, 55.1 (2012), 19–39.
3. Institute of Race Relations, Counting the Cost: Racial Violence since Macpherson (London: Institute of Race Relations, 2001), p. 5.
4. The full report, W. Macpherson, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Report of an Inquiry (Norwich: The Stationery Office (House of Commons), 1999), is available at
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk
/document/cm42/4262/4262.htm. A summation, ‘The Macpherson Report: Summary’, was published in The Guardian on 24 February 1999 and is available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk
/lawrence/Story/0,,208693,00.html. See A. Sivanandan, Macpherson and After (London: Institute of Race Relations, 2000),
http://www.irr.org.uk
/2000/february/ak000001.html (accessed 20 December 2011); Cottle, The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence, pp. 189, 192–3 and passim; and J. Reinelt, ‘Toward a Poetics of Theatre and Public Events: In the Case of Stephen Lawrence’, TDR: The Drama Review, 50.3 (2006), 69–87 (pp. 73 and 76).
5. Sivanandan, Macpherson and After; Cottle, The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence, pp. 188 and 194; Cathcart, The Case of Stephen Lawrence, p. 402.