TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Examining postdisaster behavior through a criminological lens: a look at property crime
JO  - American behavioral scientist
A1  - Frailing, Kelly
A1  - Harper, Dee Wood
SP  - 1179
EP  - 1195
VL  - 64
IS  - 8
N2  - Disaster sociology has a rich and undeniably valuable history. Among other things, it has revealed much about the behavior of disaster survivors. In recent years, criminologists have turned their attention and the discipline's theories, methods, and data sources to understanding behavior in the wake of disasters and have come to a number of additional and sometimes different conclusions than did sociologists. In this article, we examine property crime in the wake of some recent and high-profile disasters. We find short-term increases in burglary after a number of disasters, ostensibly challenging some long-held notions in disaster sociology. We contend that the use of criminological methods including secondary analysis of extant data to understand behavior after disasters provides a more nuanced and accurate picture of postdisaster behavior and conclude with a call for inclusion of these theories, methods, and data sources in disaster studies more widely.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-7642
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764220938110
ID  - ref1
ER  -