Weekend sessions have been held in courts across the country as the number of people charged for riot-related offences reaches more than 1,000.
About 30 riot-related cases were heard at Manchester Magistrates' Court.
Politicians have been out visiting areas affected, with Ed Miliband in Hackney and Nick Clegg in Manchester.
Some 2,250 people have been arrested and extra police numbers are being maintained over the weekend, one week on from the first disturbances.
Other developments related to last week's rioting in London, the East and West Midlands, Manchester, Liverpool and Gloucester, include:
US "supercop" Bill Bratton, the prime minister's new crime adviser says communities cannot "arrest their way out" of gang crime
Two men have been arrested over the death of Trevor Ellis, who was found with bullet wounds in a car in Croydon, south London, during Monday night's rioting
Families of three men killed when hit by a car in Birmingham during the riots have praised people for their response, as police arrest two more suspects and are given more time to question three people who were already arrested
Images of suspects continue to be displayed to shoppers on a large city centre screen in Birmingham
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been visiting Manchester, where more than 100 premises in the city and in nearby Salford were looted during disturbances
Merseyside Police have released CCTV images of suspects thought to be involved in rioting
Courts have been working consecutively for the last four nights to hear riot-related cases.
The parents of a 14-year-old boy who stole from a supermarket during rioting have been commended for handing him in.
The boy travelled with friends to Manchester to see the trouble but were scared by the mobs and decided to leave.
As he passed a supermarket with a broken window, the boy reached in a took a packet of chewing gum. It was enough to get his image - caught on CCTV - in a national newspaper.
His parents saw it and were described in court as being disgusted. They marched him to the police station and he admitted burglary with intent to steal.
The district judge asked his parents to stand up in court and congratulated them on their response, saying more parents should take their responsibilities so seriously.
Giving the boy a nine-month referral order, the judge told him his actions had not been stupid but simply dishonest.
BBC correspondent Katherine Downes at Westminster Magistrates' Court said magistrates will close at about 2000 BST and restart on Sunday.
She said: "It's very unusual for courts to sit on a Sunday but then this is an unusual week."
On Saturday court cases dealt with included Reece Donovan, 20, of Cross Road, Romford, east London, who was remanded in custody after he was charged with robbing Malaysian student Asyraf Haziq in Barking on Monday.
Elsewhere, Edward Adeyemi, 19, from Enfield, north London, was charged with taking an iron grid out of the ground and smashing his way into a sports store, allowing scores of people to loot the business in Manchester.
Manchester magistrate Richard Monkhouse warned against a "knee-jerk reaction" to the violence.
"Simply to say that locking somebody up is the only option is not sensible," he said.
"Sometimes you think, well, are we actually trying to do this too quickly. Are we trying to do this without all the full information that magistrates can assess what the seriousness of the offence and who the offender is?"
Human rights barrister Matthew Ryder said rushing cases through court was a "recipe for problems".
"A fair result's much harder to attain if you're trying to do things very, very quickly. It may mean that people who have a minor role will be elevated and people who have a serious role won't be properly identified," he added.
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