Natural Disasters and Crime: Criminological Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

Nobo, Caroline; Pfeffer, Rebecca

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3640-9_10

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“…The theory of postdisaster altruism argues that “emergent” community organizations support survivors’ efforts during recovery (A. H. Barton, 1969; Fritz, 1961/1996; Nobo & Pfeffer, 2012; Prelog, 2016; Quarantelli & Dynes, 1977; Rodriguez et al, 2006; Solnit, 2009). More recently, scholars have expressed this idea in terms of social capital theory while noting that certain forms of social solidarity could be harmful.…”

Section: Theories Of Disaster and Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Researching Crime After a Disaster: What We Can Learn From a Large Survey in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina

Weil

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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In this article, I describe a large ( N = 7,000) survey we conducted in greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We encountered many challenges in conducting the survey and used a number of creative means of collecting the data. Our survey, which included detailed questions about collective resources and can be aggregated to the census tract level, has great utility in investigating not only crime but also such questions as repopulation, blight reduction, resident stress, heart health, Airbnbs or short-term rentals, and foreclosures. The main difficulty was the time it took to conduct the survey because many interviews had to be done door-to-door and face-to-face to produce a representative sample. While we clearly outlined these limitations in papers we wrote, the survey duration raised questions of causal direction, and we had to conduct detailed tests of endogeneity to provide convincing evidence that our analyses were sound. I also briefly describe some of the other data we utilized, other surveys we conducted, and ethnographic and organizational work we did that not only assisted disaster recovery but also gave us insights into the social processes we investigated with our quantitative data.

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Section: Theories Of Disaster and Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Researching Crime After a Disaster: What We Can Learn From a Large Survey in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina

Weil

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Others have studied the impacts of natural disasters on crime and social control (Nobo and Pfeffer 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Resilient infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Rueda¹,

Dupont²,

Shearing³

2022

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We use a broad range of material such as policy outlines, academic literature, and journalistic research to look at the impacts of natural disasters on critical infrastructures as well as on developments in creating resilient infrastructures, focusing on examples in the United States and Canada with a focus on a case study on Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. This case study is based on a scoping review of the academic and grey literature on Hurricane Maria, its impacts on Puerto Rico and the response and recovery to the crisis.

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“…Others have studied the impacts of natural disasters on crime and social control (Nobo and Pfeffer 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%