Vigilantes - by Taimi Castle & Benjamin Meade (Hardcover)

About the Book

Blending history, scholarly analysis, and pop culture, this book provides the necessary context to understand vigilantism in the US and globally.

Book Synopsis

Blending history, scholarly analysis, and pop culture, this book provides the necessary context to understand vigilantism in the US and globally.

Review Quotes

A highly useful book on vigilantism. Although the main focus is on the American tradition of vigilantism, it also provides a broad discussion and examples of this global phenomenon.

Castle and Meade offer an informative overview of vigilantism that is embedded in history, politics, and popular culture. Vigilantes#39;s timely and critical approach will enable readers to better understand the appeal and impact of extralegal justice-seeking.

Taimi Castle and Benjamin Meadersquo;s Vigilantes: Extralegal Justice, Social Control, and Violence will challenge and expand the way you think about vigilantism. Global in scope yet capturing the particular aspects of American culture that drive public imagination about vigilantism, this book carefully situates the concept of vigilantism in relation to the state. In particular, the authors scrupulously consider the extralegal nature of vigilantism, state complicity, and the tendency of group vigilantism to target the disadvantaged as a means to reinforce and maintain structural inequalities.

About the Author

Taimi L. Castle, PhD, is professor of Justice Studies and director of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at James Madison University.
Benjamin D. Meade, PhD, is associate professor of Justice Studies at James Madison University.