Vigilante

What is the difference between a vigilante and a hero? Think of the potential of a city if organized crime was eliminated.Vigilantes need to be used in societies more often. If vigilantes were used more in society, crime rates would drop, more tax money would be available for the city, people would feel safe, and criminals would think twice about their unlawful actions. People should not live in fear of being in the wrong side of town. It is time the criminals live in fear for their actions. A vigilante may make people question their morals, but not the results. A hero acts within the law, and a vigilante acts outside the law to stop criminals. A great example of a hero would be a police officer, and a vigilante would be someone like, DC’s comic book character Batman. The difference between the two is defined by their actions. A police officer arrest criminals and puts them in jail, whereas Batman uses violent force, and has no legal authority to apprehend criminals. Vigilantes are mostly fictional characters made up in novels, movies, or comic books. Vigilantes appeal to the readers by their unlawful acts lead to some form of justice. Is there a difference between a vigilante and a villain? Cristina Hartmann, worked at Federal Communications Commission,…

According to a Rappler article by Michael Bueza, there were 5,927 people killed (2,086 in police operations, 3,841 extrajudicial or by vigilantes), 33,830 arrested, and 764,742 "surrendered" (As of 12/12/2016). The citizens live in fear, not because of criminals but from the government. In the Financial Times article, by Bryan Harris and Grace Ramos, there are three ways the death toll has risen up as fast as it has. The first is by the government through the Philippine army and national police…

Becoming a criminal : Vigilantism and the Law In the movies, superheros are able try to fight crime and save the day. But some people try to replicate these heroes and become vigilantes. However these vigilantes are not fictional superheroes and end up causing trouble. For this reason, vigilantism is wrong for society because vigilantes are not above the law, there is always the authority to intervene, and since vigilantes are untrained and fueled by emotion, they are more likely to end up…

Community-Based systems are not always restorative. Vigilantism can come from Community-Based systems. Sometimes people feel as if justice has not been laid down properly. These people are the ones that decide to take the law into their own hands. This can pose a real threat to the Community. Vigilantism is done when there has been a sense of injustice; there is a desire to take it into one’s own hands. Vigilantism will no doubt cause normlessness and lawlessness; it only adds to anime within…

widespread that most killings can be attributed to the government in general, and to the AFP in particular. Instead of an unrelated series of murders carried out by criminals, the killings ‘constitute a pattern of politically targeted extrajudicial executions’…” (Holden 2012). A comprehensive study of extrajudicial killings carried out between 2001 and 2010 found that “most of the suspects are still identified (57% of 837) …19% of those identified are members of the Armed Forces of the…

If you have ever watched a movie or read a graphic novel which included super heroes or crime fighters, you likely understand what vigilantism is. Some vigilante characters include spider-man, batman, power rangers, and others like these. These days vigilantism is very popular, especially in the film business. Thor, Captain America, and even the Transformers are all versions of vigilantism which the film industry has marketed off of and has been very successful in doing so. These film versions…

Christopher Nolan has arguably created the best Batman film. The Batman in The Dark Knight has taken the approach of a more vigilante role with ambiguous morals. The definition of a vigilante is member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement into their own community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate. By the definition above Batman is a vigilante because he is a self-appointed citizen of Gotham City who took law…

Because of the power that many vigilante groups held over their regions, much of the documentation which details the vigilantes’ actions and motivations can be called into question. Many texts and accounts from the period depicted the vigilantes’ actions and punishments in a positive light often saying they were just or necessary. However, later interpretations of the vigilante groups show that these groups may have presented their actions as being in the name of justice and for the people, when…

V. THE FEMALE VIGILANTE As seen in the previous section, vigilantes were traditionally upper class males in a group. However, with time, the definition has altered- the modern vigilante is more an individual than a group of people and consists of females as well. In fact, vigilantism is a permissible mode of crime resolution for women backed by the Social Contract Theory. The said theory proposes the existence of a sort of contract between the State and its citizens, wherein the state is obliged…

Vigilantes are “a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate” (Dictionary). So are vigilantes good or evil? Vigilantes in stories like Batman, the Arrow, or Robin Hood all go against the law to save their city or help the poor and needy. Vigilantism is not as good in real life as the stories make it seem. Sometimes people like Joe Horn will break the law…