Taking the Law into Our Hands: Trust, Social Capital and Vigilante Justice
Under what circumstances do citizens turn to their neighbors to confront criminals directly? I propose that social capital and distrust in authorities interact to increase the probability that citizens will attempt to enforce the law independently of the state (what I call Extralegal Collective Law...
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VANDERBILT
2015
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-11202015-202702/ |