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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. Vigilantes: The Corruption of the Justice System

Author : Graham Brooks

Published in: Criminal Justice and Corruption

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter will highlight how some nations have lost control of the justice system and conceded the role of punishment to terrorist and/or paramilitary groups and organized crime. This is particularly noticeable in Mexico, Nigeria and Northern Ireland. This chapter therefore explores the need to contain victimization and maintain social order; however, such order is maintained outside the recognized legal order of justice. This chapter then is about extra-judicial punishment by either police and/or groups outside the legal order and thus the contested notion of what criminal justice can do, and is able to do, and the definition of ‘justice’.

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Metadata
Title
Vigilantes: The Corruption of the Justice System
Author
Graham Brooks
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Criminal Justice and Corruption

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-16037-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-16038-8

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16038-8_9