Dominic J. Capeci Jr. and Martha Wilkerson address the use of violence and the different justifications used in the Detroit Riots of 1934. Capeci and Wilkerson provide the statistics of the rioters to show the social and economic differences of those involved. Capeci and Wilkerson also state the different theories given by scholars that provide the characterizations of rioters and their use of violence. Capeci and Wilkerson address the topic that not all rioters were not socially or economically the same; that riots represent different groups with different ideologies. Capeci and Wilkerson use statistics from those who were arrested, court documents, as well as different accounts that were written by those directly involved in the riots. The
