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Vigilantism

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MADISON, ARNOLD. Vigilantism in America. New York: Seabury Press, 1973.

MARX, GARY T., and ARCHER, DANE. "Community Police Patrols and Vigilantism." In Vigilante Politics. Edited by H. Jon Rosenbaum and Peter C. Sederberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976. Pages 129–157.

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