Epidemiological modelling of the 2005 French riots: a spreading wave and the role of contagion
Epidemiological modelling of the 2005 French riots: a spreading wave and the role of contagion
Abstract As a large-scale instance of dramatic collective behaviour, the 2005 French riots started in a poor suburb of Paris, then spread in all of France, lasting about three weeks. Remarkably, although there were no displacements of rioters, the riot activity did travel. Access to daily national police data has …