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Cultural Issues: Crime Vigilantism

Description

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR

Parent Term

  • Crime

Sibling Terms

  • Blackmail
  • Bootlegging
  • Breaking and entering
  • Bribe
  • Cattle rustling
  • Commercial sexual exploitation
  • Drug addiction
  • Embezzlement
  • Extortion
  • Forgery
  • Fratricide
  • Gambling
  • Horse theft
  • Kidnapping
  • Looting
  • Making whisky
  • Manslaughter
  • Moonshining
  • Murder
  • Penalty for
  • Prevention
  • Prostitution
  • Theft
  • Vagrancy
  • Waistcoat

Tagged Events

"Dry September", 175 (Event)
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Atmospheric›Light | Time of Day›Night
Actions: Movement›Car | Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Prejudice›Racism
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Pathetic fallacy | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Ellipsis
The Town, 43 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Lynch mob
Cultural Issues: Crime›Vigilantism | Group Mentality›Mob behavior | Violence›Castration | Violence›Rape
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha