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The study is a contextual analysis of flood victimization. Victimization is defined as the social, psychological, and physiological aftermath experienced by victims of a disaster. Disaster researchers concentrate on the victims' characteristics to explain the varying degrees of their victimization, providing only ambiguous results. Theorists such as Kreps, Wildavsky, and Douglas contend that the outcomes of disasters are contingent upon social structure. This analysis treats victimization as one such outcome. The condition and behavior of individuals can be explained by the presence of disaster and the conditions of social organization. A model explains victimization based on individual's attributes (individual resources), his social environment, and the disaster characteristics. This study uses the 1984 Mingo Creek Flood Victims Survey data to test the model. The data contain information measuring victimization. The survey data are linked with 1980 Census tract data. The tract data provide indicators of the social networks. This tract information, the contextual variables, taps the social conditions, including poverty, unemployment, geographic mobility, and family patterns. This study uses factor analysis to identify the dimensions of victimization. Regression tests the relationship between the contextual variables, the individual resource variables, the disaster characteristic variables, and victimization. The results of the analysis show …

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Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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Photograph of the interior of the Harwelden Mansion.

Photograph of the interior of the Harwelden Mansion.

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Photograph of a scene in Riverside Park with the Tulsa Skyline in the background.

Photograph of a scene in Riverside Park with the Tulsa Skyline in the background.

Photograph of a scene in Riverside Park with the Tulsa Skyline in the background.

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Photograph of a scene on the campus of the University of Tulsa.

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Photograph of a scene on the campus of the University of Tulsa.

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