At the heart of outlaw vigilantes
Audio 48:30
Cover of the book "Proud to punish, the world of outlaw vigilantes" by Laurent Gayer and Gilles Favarel-Garrigues © Seuil / Laurent Gayer
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 mins
They are Americans, Russians, Colombians and even Nigerians.
Whether they are solitary or in a group, whether they defend a moral order or a revolutionary ideal, whether they are on the side of the privileged or the disadvantaged, they all have in common the desire to dispense justice by themselves.
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Convinced that justice is too lax or too slow, that the police are not doing their job, they take matters into their own hands to defend their interests and their vision of Good.
These twists and turns improvise detectives, judges and executioners.
Denouncement, humiliation, corporal punishment, summary execution, ... These self-advocates use the hard way.
Social networks offering them an audience sometimes in real time.
Investigation in the world of outlaw vigilantes.
With :
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
, research director at CNRS, political science researcher, specialist in issues of deviance, police and justice in Russia.
Co-author of
Proud to punish - The world of outlaw vigilantes
(Seuil)
Laurent Gayer
, research director at CNRS.
Specialist in the Indian subcontinent.
Co-author of
Proud to punish - The world of outlaw vigilantes
(Seuil)
A focus with
Moïse Gomis
on the Bakassi Boys, a group of “vigilantes” which will emerge in South East Nigeria at the end of the 90s.
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