The contention that violence may be reactionary or planned

The contention that violence may be reactionary or planned.

Violence, as numerous historians have sharp out, is an American custom (Friedman 1993: 175; Gurr 1989). Deeply embedded in the annals of violence are the activities of vigilante assemblies and persons, most of which are the stuff of loving and well liked mythology. In alignment to sort the myth from the truth and to realise the essence and custom of vigilantism in the United States, the notion should first be defined.

Richard Brown (1975: 95-96) presents one of the most broadly acknowledged delineations of vigilantism: “organized, ...