Shadow vigilantes : how failures of justice inspire lawlessness /: how failures of justice inspire lawlessness. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Paul H. Robinson and Sarah M. Robinson.
• Authors: Robinson, Paul H, 1948-; Robinson, Sarah M
• 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: where are they now?
• Publisher Details: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.1/34; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Law enforcement -- United States; Crime prevention -- United States -- Citizen participation; Vigilantes -- United States; Crime prevention -- Citizen participation; Criminal justice, Administration of; Law enforcement; Vigilantes; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781633884328; 1633884325
• Related ISBNs: 9781633884311; 1633884317
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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