What looting in civil disturbances really means.

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Dynes, Russell Rowe, 1923-

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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: MAY 1968Description: 6p., 4 refs, 2 illReport number: DRC-REPRINT-15; Institutional/Corporate BodySubject(s):

Subject: The authors regard looting as more than pointless or criminal behaviour. Rather it is interpreted as a kind of mass protest against dominant conceptions of property. The scope and intensity of current attacks indicate the presence of large numbers of outsiders living within most American cities. Looting is seen to be a bid for the redistribution of property to deprived sectors of the population

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Reprinted from Trans-action; 1968; May; pp9-14

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The authors regard looting as more than pointless or criminal behaviour. Rather it is interpreted as a kind of mass protest against dominant conceptions of property. The scope and intensity of current attacks indicate the presence of large numbers of outsiders living within most American cities. Looting is seen to be a bid for the redistribution of property to deprived sectors of the population

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