Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture offers a transnational investigation of vigilantism and its context across a range of eleven different jurisdictions. Focusing on vigilante justice in popular culture, this unique collection enriches the debate by adding the opportunity for comparison which has been lacking in scholarly literature.

Peter Robson is professor of social welfare law at the University of Strathclyde.

Ferdinando Spina is assistant professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Salento.

Introduction: Vigilantism - an Overview

Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina

Part I: The Anglophone World

1. American Vigilantism - Popular Justice and Popular Culture

Michael Asimow

2. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture - The British Experience

Peter Robson

3. Vigilante Frontier Communities on Australian Screens: Bushrangers, Bikies, and Bogans

Lili Pâquet

4. Vigilante Justice in Canada

Rebecca Johnson

Part II: European Experiences

5. Vigilante Justice in Germany

Franziska Stürmer

6. Vigilantism - the Greek Approach

Nickos Myrtou and Stamatis Poulakidakos

7. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture - The Italian Experience

Ferdinando Spina

8. The Punishing Hand of Vigilante Justice in Poland

Joanna Osiejewicz

9. Margins Without Justice: Revenge in João Canijo's Portuguese Cinema

Júlia Garraio

Part III: A South American Perspective

10. "You Said Perpetual!" Approaches to Vigilantism in Argentine Culture

Sebastian Viqueira

11. Vigilante Justice and the Rule of Death: The Existential Threat to the State and Its People in Brazil

Pedro Fortes