VIGILANTISM - AN ANALYSIS OF ESTABLISHMENT VIOLENCE (FROM VIGILANTE POLITICS, 1976 BY H JON ROSENBAUM AND PETER C SEDERBERG - SEE NCJ-35385)

• NCJ Number: 35386
• Author(s): H J ROSENBAUM; P C SEDERBERG
• Date Published: 1976
• Length: 27 pages
• Corporate Author: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

STUDY OF VIGILANTISM AS ESTABLISHMENT VIOLENCE CONSISTING OF ACTS OR THREATS OF COERCION IN VIOLATION OF THE FORMAL BOUNDARIES OF AN ESTABLISHED SOCIOPOLITICAL ORDER BUT INTENDED TO PROTECT THAT ORDER FROM SUBVERSION.

Abstract

THE PAPER SEEKS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF ESTABLISHMENT VIOLENCE THROUGH A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE CONDITIONS LIKELY TO PRODUCE VIGILANTE ACTION, DEVELOPMENT OF A TYPOLOGY OF VIGILANTISM, AND DISCUSSION OF THE EFFECTS OF VIGILANTISM ON THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A STABLE SOCIOPOLITICAL ORDER.