Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture

Introduction: Vigilantism - an Overview

Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina



Part I: The Anglophone World

1. American Vigilantism - Popular Justice and Popular Culture

Michael Asimow

2. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture - The British Experience

Peter Robson

3. Vigilante Frontier Communities on Australian Screens: Bushrangers, Bikies, and Bogans

Lili Paquet

4. Vigilante Justice in Canada

Rebecca Johnson



Part II: European Experiences

5. Vigilante Justice in Germany

Franziska Stuermer

6. Vigilantism - the Greek Approach

Nickos Myrtou and Stamatis Poulakidakos

7. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture - The Italian Experience

Ferdinando Spina

8. The Punishing Hand of Vigilante Justice in Poland

Joanna Osiejewicz

9. Margins Without Justice: Revenge in Joao Canijo's Portuguese Cinema

Julia Garraio



Part III: A South American Perspective

10. "You Said Perpetual!" Approaches to Vigilantism in Argentine Culture

Sebastian Viqueira

11. Vigilante Justice and the Rule of Death: The Existential Threat to the State and Its People in Brazil

Pedro Fortes

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