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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"vigilantism"”.
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Recent discourses on vigilantism within South Africa
Reports of vigilantism are common in South African media today, where it is portrayed as a growing trend of reactionary violence against the perception of a high crime rate in the country and a criminal justice system which is failing the public. At the same time, the South African Police Service …
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Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo
<p>San Luis Obispo, California was a violent place in the 1850s with numerous murders and lynchings in staggering proportions. This thesis studies the rise of violence in SLO, its causation, and effects. The vigilance committee of 1858 represents the culmination of the violence that came from …
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Third parties’ reactions to everyday vigilantism: A dual-process perspective
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Horse-Stealing and Man-Hanging: An Examination of Vigilantism in the Missouri Ozarks
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to determine what factors did or did not have an impact on the formation of the Slickers, the Regulators, and the Sons of Honor, three vigilante organizations that formed in the Missouri Ozarks during the nineteenth century. Primary source documents indicate that …
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A new sphere of vigilantism in South Africa in the age of social media? Operation Wanya Tsotsi- an analysis of prospects for collaboration with the Police
… Africa that have analysed the definition of vigilantism with a focus on the historical background of the apartheid era. However, research in the field of vigilantism in South Africa has been lacking since the advent of the internet, even though social media has spawned a new form of …
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The vigilante strain and the spaces of the state in contemporary fiction
… in select works of contemporary fiction. Vigilantism is a concept that has no stable definition and varies in terms of the vigilante’s characteristics, motivations and aims. Popular culture manifestations of the vigilante portray the figure as an avenger, seeking vengeance for personal …
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'Dominoes'
… and Anarchy - Unravelling the Paradox of Vigilantism'. This paper broadly outlines the phenomena of vigilantism, drawing on research from experts as well as examples from real life.
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Policing and the rule of law in weak states : evidence from Liberia
… and insecurity, how can they reduce reliance on vigilantism and extrajudicial justice? My dissertation explores these questions through a series of three essays on policing in Liberia. The first reports results from a large-scale, randomized control trial evaluation of the Liberian National …
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Sex offender registry acts: Deterrence or moral panic?
… while placing offenders at a higher risk of vigilantism and mental health problems. This is very different from the original lists of convicted criminals.</p>
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
… of crimes during the raids. Their violent vigilantism provoked retaliation of the bootleggers and their official allies. During the ""Klan war"" from January 1924 to April 1926, twenty people lost their lives, and state troops came to the county five times to restore order. The Klan …
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Punishment and Violence in Organisation Studies
… its own specific theoretical contribution: to vigilantism (unofficial punishment), discretion (the underuse of official punishments/rules), and violence (specifically its threat). Taken together, this offers a body of scholarly work that significantly improves our understanding of punishment …
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The British Army in Ireland 1961-1921 : a social and cultural history
… for the worse by contributing to a culture of vigilantism in the Crown forces.By tapping into a wealth of previously unexploited sources including soldiers' memoirs, letters, war diaries and regimental journals, the study will explore soldiers' quotidian service life and bring fresh …
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Tactical urbanism, public policy reform, and 'innovation spotting' by government : from Park(ing) Day to San Francisco's parklet program
… parochial, special-interest agendas and even vigilantism. To minimize that risk, the field needs some rules of the road, as safeguards in the TU playbook. As of now, TU does not have a code. Developing one is a critical next step, both for urban tacticians and planning research.
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Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood
… or by a drug addiction, but by ninjutsu, and vigilantism. This is where Tasha finds its unique approach to Australian cinema’s historic treatment of the woman-centred narrative. That said, beneath Tasha’s unconventional surface arguably lies a truly Australian comedy film. The exegesis …
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The (Non)normative Administration of Justice by the Crowd: An Adaptation and Application of Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loyalty Framework
Injustice, be it procedural, retributive, or restorative, can propel the crowd into different forms of collective action. This dissertation explores the motivations and responses that crowds undertake in response to perceived injustices using a sequential exploratory research design. The …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
In the two decades prior to Cherokee Removal, Georgians discussed removal as a way for the state to create and maintain order, a cluster of ideas that revolved around a social system that championed white superiority, a political system that adhered to republican thinking, and a legal system that …