Property norms and looting: their patterns in community crises.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1970Description: 15p., refs appear throughoutReport number: UnknownSubject: Massive civil disturbances are not new in American society. From 1964 to 1969 these disturbances have numbered in the high hundreds. Looters struck in the majority of these events. By late spring of 1968 about 60,000 persons had been arrested for looting and related activities. Looting is seen as deviant behavior of individuals, and is interpreted as being primarily expressive in function. The authors believe a different perception of this phenomena is required. This point of view is developed by contrasting two different perspectives, noting differences in patterns in dissensus and consensus situations (i.e. between civil disturbances and natural disasters) and advancing an explanation of looting in terms of the emergence of new group norms, at times of major crises
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This is a substantially revised version of the paper. Some parts of the original paper are included in an article by the authors published in Il Politico; 1969.
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Massive civil disturbances are not new in American society. From 1964 to 1969 these disturbances have numbered in the high hundreds. Looters struck in the majority of these events. By late spring of 1968 about 60,000 persons had been arrested for looting and related activities. Looting is seen as deviant behavior of individuals, and is interpreted as being primarily expressive in function. The authors believe a different perception of this phenomena is required. This point of view is developed by contrasting two different perspectives, noting differences in patterns in dissensus and consensus situations (i.e. between civil disturbances and natural disasters) and advancing an explanation of looting in terms of the emergence of new group norms, at times of major crises
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