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==Origin==
Spanish, watchman, guard, from ''vigilante'' [[vigilant]], from [[Latin]] ''vigilant''-, ''vigilans''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1856]
==Definitions==
*1: a member of a [[volunteer]] committee [[organized]] to suppress and punish [[crime]] summarily (as when the processes of [[law]] are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of [[justice]]
==Description==
A '''vigilante''' is an [[individual]] or [[group]] who undertakes law enforcement without [[legal]] [[authority]] or illegal authority.
"Vigilante justice" is rationalized by the [[idea]] that adequate legal [[mechanisms]] for criminal punishment are either nonexistent or insufficient. Vigilantes typically see [[government]] as ineffective in enforcing the law; and such individuals often presume to justify their [[actions]] as fulfillment of the wishes of "the [[community]]".
Persons alleged to be "[[escaping]] the law" or "above the law" are sometimes the victims of vigilantism.
Vigilante behavior involves various degrees of [[violence]]. Vigilantes may [[assault]] targets verbally or physically or may vandalize [[property]] or actually kill individuals.
==See also==
*'''''[[Mob]]'''''
[[Category: Law]]
==Origin==
Spanish, watchman, guard, from ''vigilante'' [[vigilant]], from [[Latin]] ''vigilant''-, ''vigilans''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1856]
==Definitions==
*1: a member of a [[volunteer]] committee [[organized]] to suppress and punish [[crime]] summarily (as when the processes of [[law]] are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of [[justice]]
==Description==
A '''vigilante''' is an [[individual]] or [[group]] who undertakes law enforcement without [[legal]] [[authority]] or illegal authority.
"Vigilante justice" is rationalized by the [[idea]] that adequate legal [[mechanisms]] for criminal punishment are either nonexistent or insufficient. Vigilantes typically see [[government]] as ineffective in enforcing the law; and such individuals often presume to justify their [[actions]] as fulfillment of the wishes of "the [[community]]".
Persons alleged to be "[[escaping]] the law" or "above the law" are sometimes the victims of vigilantism.
Vigilante behavior involves various degrees of [[violence]]. Vigilantes may [[assault]] targets verbally or physically or may vandalize [[property]] or actually kill individuals.
==See also==
*'''''[[Mob]]'''''
[[Category: Law]]
