Proud to Punish

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"Proud to Punish offers a brilliant, compelling analysis of contemporary vigilantism and the politics of extrajudicial punishment. The authors offer innovative insights into crimefighting discourses, retributive violence, its public reception, and responses from law enforcement authorities; and vividly illustrate how these factors become implicated in local and global vigilante configurations."
-Atreyee Sen, co-editor of Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Violence and Justice "Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer lead us on a visceral journey across the globe to understand contemporary vigilantism. With a rare blend of theoretical sophistication and empirical grounding, Proud to Punish asks us to confront the fact that vigilantism is neither a relic of the past, nor a product of failed states, but rather a broadly embraced force of the present."
-Harel Shapira, The University of Texas at Austin "Proud to Punish is a must-read for all interested in global vigilantism and lynching. Admirably capacious in ranging across space and time, the book offers significant insights on the rough justice impulse in a wide variety of contemporary and historical contexts."
-Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching "This is a useful and in-depth review of vigilante justice around the world. Recommended."-W. R. Pruitt, CHOICE "Proud to Punish will engage a wide audience of scholars, students, and practitioners seeking to grasp the untidy and frequently disturbing social reality of rough justice. A particular strength of the volume is the comparative approach. It is not simply that the authors consciously broaden the empirical base of their study beyond the standard Anglosphere countries, although that is welcome in itself. It is also that doing so-using data from a range of political and geographic contexts-allows the authors to bring out weaknesses in existing theories and thereby contribute to refining them."-Matthew Light, Theoretical Criminology