The term looting conflates opportunistic crime with survival-driven appropriation.

Evidence

13I problematise the term looting in this context because it is often used to lump opportunistic burglaries together with incidents where survivors take goods from abandoned shops for their own survival (see Tierney et al., 2006). — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 111

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Emergency looting conflates burglary with survival foraging — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 111; Poverty, like crime, is defined by social reaction rather than inherent state — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 445; Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 143 (+2 more)

Related

• Emergency looting conflates burglary with survival foraging (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Emergency looting conflates burglary with survival foraging #corroborates (0.97) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 111
• Popular illegality formed a continuum running from tolerated evasion to outright crime #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 139
• Poverty, like crime, is defined by social reaction rather than inherent state #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 445
• Capitalism recast tolerated popular customs as criminal property theft #complicates (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 143
• Trust-eroding domination made organized crime a plausible historical response. #responds-to (0.70) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2132