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The increasing visibility of a wide range of militia and vigilante groups has repeatedly caught local communities and national leaders off guard.
Republicans are free again to recruit poll watchers – four decades after ‘ballot security’ operations helped steer New Jersey’s 1981 gubernatorial race toward their candidate.
For many Americans, law and order has long been as much a private matter as something for the government to handle.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
Cyber security firms have sparked a revolution similar to the spread of private police forces.
After a short suspension of anti-drug operations, President Rodrigo Duterte has resumed his bloody war.
Vigilantism challenges the formal boundary between crime and punishment, between law and justice. But its largely been overlooked as a legal topic worthy of in-depth consideration.
It is particularly dangerous to be an elderly person in Tanzania’s rural areas and villages. Legislation exists to protect this group, but it’s not being translated into reality.
The “quick fix” nature of the Arusha Peace Agreement seems to have come back to haunt Burundi. Ethnic protests threaten to tear the country apart, leading it to the path of a failed state.
Groups like Letzgo Hunting claim to fill the gaps left by inefficient police work, but does their approach undermine police work and treatment?
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland; International Distinguished Fellow, the Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University., The University of Queensland
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
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Adjunct Professor, Roosevelt Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, SARChI in Higher Education and Human Development Research Group, University of the Free State
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Professor of Security and Fraud, University of Portsmouth
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Mary Nel is a senior lecturer in Public Law, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Excellence in Policing & Public Safety Program, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Lecturer, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
