英语学习点: Rioting and Looting 暴动和打劫
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A couple of young people looting a shop for electrical equipment
People in the UK are in shock after days of brazen thefts and wanton damage during riots in London and other cities in England. Across the media, there have been images of people walking into shops and helping themselves to flat-screen TVs, clothes and other items.
But what is it that turns people into looters? Criminologists and psychologists have been considering what happens.
Some politicians have been quick to describe the rioting as simply thuggery. But experts point out that only some of those involved will have committed such crimes before; and others are swept along with the crowd.
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