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(Q914841)

English

frontier justice

extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with judicial punishment

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subclass of
crime
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policing
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/vigilante
quotation
Learn about this topic in these articles: / history of policing in the United States / lynchings (English)
practiced by
vigilante
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partially coincident with
execution
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lynching
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Freebase ID
/m/06zqfyy
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