Editing Riot (section)

==Classification==
[[File:Tompkins square riot 1874.jpg|thumbnail|New York police attacking unemployed workers in [[Tompkins Square Riot (1874)|Tompkins Square Park]], 1874.]]

'''[[Food riot]]s''' are caused by [[harvest]] failures, incompetent food storage, hoarding, poisoning of food, or attacks by pests like [[locusts]]. When the public becomes desperate from such conditions, groups may attack shops, farms, homes, or government buildings to obtain bread or other staple foods like grain or salt. [[T. S. Ashton]], in his study of food riots among [[Colliery|colliers]], noted that "the turbulence of the colliers is, of course, to be accounted for by something more elementary than politics: it was the instinctive reaction of virility to hunger."<ref>Ashton, T. S., and Joseph Sykes. 1967. ''The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century''. 2d ed. New York: A. M. Kelley. p. 131.</ref> [[C. H. Wilson (historian)|Charles Wilson]] noted, "Spasmodic rises in food prices provoked [[keelmen]] on the [[River Tyne|Tyne]] to riot in 1709, tin miners to plunder granaries at [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]] in 1727."<ref>{{cite journal|author=E.P. Thompson|title=The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century|journal=Past and Present|issue=50|date=Feb 1971|page=77|jstor=650244|doi=10.1093/past/50.1.76}}</ref>{{verify source|date=May 2014}} In the [[1977 Egyptian Bread Riots]], hundreds of thousands of people rioted after food [[Subsidy|subsidies]] stopped and prices rose.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Patel|first1=Raj|title=A Political Economy of the Food Riot|date=2014|work=Riot, Unrest and Protest on the Global Stage|pages=237–261|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-30552-7|last2=McMichael|first2=Philip|doi=10.1007/978-1-137-30553-4_13}}</ref>

A '''[[police riot]]''' is a term for the disproportionate and unlawful use of force by a group of police against a group of civilians. This term is commonly used to describe a police attack on civilians or provoking civilians into violence.<ref>Summary of the ''Walker Report'', http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_chicago7_doc_13.html</ref>

A political riot is a riot for [[political]] purposes or that develops out of a political [[protest]].

A '''[[prison riot]]''' is a large-scale, temporary act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners. It is often done to express a grievance, force change or attempt escape.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}

In a '''[[race riot]]''', race or ethnicity is the key factor. The term had entered the English language in the United States by the 1890s. Early use of the term referred to riots that were often a mob action by members of a majority racial group against people of other perceived races.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}

[[File:March for Alternative - 25.jpg|thumb|March for Alternative - 25 student [[anarchist]] rioters damage storefront windows in protests against the [[IMF]]]]
In a '''[[religious riot]]''', the key factor is [[religion]]. Historically, these riots could involve groups arguing who possesses the primate of [[orthodoxy]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fafinski |first=Mateusz |date=2024-04-04 |title=A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus |journal=Al-Masāq |language=en |pages=1–25 |doi=10.1080/09503110.2024.2331915 |issn=0950-3110|doi-access=free }}</ref> The rioting mob targets people and properties of a specific religion, or those believed to belong to that religion.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/03/india.pig.religious.riot/index.html|work=CNN|title=Thrown pig leads to religious riots in India|access-date=May 22, 2010|date=July 3, 2009}}</ref>

[[File:Starbucks Barcelona.jpg|thumb|A [[Starbucks]] after [[Anti-austerity movement in Spain|anti austerity]] protests and riots in Barcelona in April 2012]]
'''[[Sports riot]]s''' such as the [[Nika riots]] can be sparked by the losing or winning of a specific team or athlete. Fans of the two teams may also fight. Sports riots may happen as a result of teams contending for a championship, a long series of matches, or scores that are close. Sports are the most common cause of riots in the United States, accompanying more than half of all championship games or series.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} Almost all sports riots in the United States occur in the winning team's city.<ref name="ballard20111226">{{cite magazine|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2011/12/26/the-kiss|title=The Kiss|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=2011-12-26|access-date=2020-08-27|author=Ballard, Steve}}</ref>