Some Excerpts from "Looting in Disaster," 1984

Some excerpts from Ohio State University’s Disaster Research Center’s Working Paper #71, “Looting in Disaster,” by Jane Gray and Elizabeth Wilson, August 1984, prepared for a conference discussion on the topic of the sociology of disaster.

The is worth a read. As is “What Looting in Civil Disturbances Really Means,” from 1968, and “Local And National Media Coverage Of Disaster: A Content Analysis Of The Print Media’s Treatment Of Disaster Myths,” from 1986.