When a riot broke out in the city of Verdana, the police tried to hold back the crowd using water cannons. According to the structural strain theory, the action taken by the police to regulate the crowd can be best described as _____

A) ?mass hysteria
B) ?milling
C) ?structural conduciveness
D) ?propaganda
E) ?social control


E

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