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It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle (often in the form of a hanging) for maximum intimidation. [1] .
21 Νοε 2024 · Lynching is a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture. The term is derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736–96), who led an irregular court formed to punish loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.
8 Φεβ 2021 · Confronting the legacy of lynching and understanding the psychodynamic processes that drive it is critical to our understanding of racist, misogynist and homophobic violence when it occurs within a group, or indeed, ‘mob’ or ‘gang’ context.
Lynching is But One of the Many Evils Calling for General Strength ening of Judicial and Administrative Processes* By James H. Chadbourn Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina NEW WAVE of lynchings has again made the nation acutely aware of the perennial problem of mob killing. In recent months
The lynchings were carried out by a mob of San Jose citizens in St. James Park across from the Santa Clara County Jail, and were broadcast as a "live" event by a Los Angeles radio station. [4] The killings were tacitly endorsed by Governor James Rolph Jr. , who said he would pardon anyone convicted of the lynching. [ 3 ]
14 Μαΐ 2020 · Lynch mobs regularly called on the language of popular sovereignty in their efforts to authorize lynchings, arguing that, as representatives of the people, they retained the right to wield public violence against persons they deemed beyond the protections of due process.
1 Δεκ 2014 · The most accurate count available is that nearly 2,500 African Americans were murdered by lynch mobs from 1882 through 1930 in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina. See Tolnay and Beck, Festival of Violence, ix. This tally excludes six states that were wholly or ...
