The Vigilante Echo : How Failures of Justice Inspire Lawlessness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robinson, Paul H., 1948- (Author), Robinson, Sarah M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vigilantes.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Justice penale > Administration > États-Unis.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Vigilantes > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Moral and emotional justifications for vigilantism
  • Who are vigilantes?
  • Fear, meet indifference: breaching the social contract
  • Sparking the vigilante impulse
  • The consequences of a perceived indifference to doing justice
  • The dangers of even moral vigilantism
  • Ten rules for the moral vigilante
  • Moral vigilantes breaking bad: community drug wars
  • How being right can risk wrongs
  • Shadow vigilantes
  • Community complicity with vigilantes
  • Shadow vigilante civilians press their disapproval
  • Shadow vigilante officials manipulate and distort to force justice from an apparently reluctant system
  • Blowback and the downward spiral
  • What it takes to stop the vigilante echo
  • Postscript: what are they doing now?

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