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Banditry is a type of organized crime committed by outlaws typically involving the threat or use of violence. A person who engages in banditry is known as a bandit and primarily commits crimes such as extortion, robbery, and murder, either as an individual or in groups.
- Sources and Definitions
- Banditry in Comparative Perspective
- Political Dimensions of Banditry
- The Significance of Violence
- The Problem of Complicity
- Banditry and Literature
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
More than most other social phenomena, the characterization of banditry depends upon how it is approached. Banditry can be seen as a legal category, a social category, and as a series of powerful stories and myths. Its meaning has changed across time and across disciplines. As a legal category, banditry is a pernicious form of crime that subverts t...
Where banditry has persisted, it can clearly be linked to the inability of the state to control the countryside. Although it would be simplistic to attribute the decline of banditry in the modern world to the state's increasing monopoly of violence, this is certainly important. Indeed, when used by state authorities, the pejorative "bandits" labels...
Throughout the Mediterranean, at least as far back as the eighteenth century, banditry has often been incorporated in nationalist and regional rhetoric. Brigantaggio politicohad already emerged as a central feature of Corsican independence strategies against Genoa under Giacinto Paoli and Gian-Pietro Gaffori in the mid-eighteenth century. Political...
Traditional banditry has often been accompanied by extreme violence in both its expression and its repression. In banditry, as in feuding, from which it in part derives, personalized violence is crucial and finely graded; the intensity of violence, however distasteful to a modern sensibility, suggests a form of control. Violence is targeted specifi...
The extreme violence practiced by bandits against peasants in many contemporary accounts has been interpreted in two ways: as expressive or as instrumental. Hobsbawm tended to an expressive interpretation. He spoke of "pathological aberrations" and "ultra violence" as a manifestation of the "primitive" nature of bandits' rebellion, but he could not...
Literary romanticization of bandits was pronounced during the formation of nation-states and was often coupled with the desire of the urban literati to discover sources of opposition (often to foreign rule) in the countryside. Guerrilla popular uprisings (casting "banditry" as an expression of the struggle for freedom) against outside despotism in ...
Banditry is an aggressive form of illegality and of adventurist capital accumulation found in certain social contexts, especially those marked by insecurity and violence; in this sense it is a product of political economy. Neither solely a prepolitical form of protest nor a means of suppressing peasant unrest, it may have performed these functions ...
About, Edmond. Le roi des montagnes.Paris, 1861. Blok, Anton. "The Peasant and the Brigand: Social Banditry Reconsidered." Comparative Studies in Society and History14 (1972): 494–503. Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age ofPhilip II.2 vols. Translated by Siân Reynolds. London, 1972. Campbell, John. "The Greek ...
On a smaller scale, banditry was a persistent problem as well. In England, many areas were quite safe, but the lack of rule of law on the Welsh and especially Scottish marches led disaffected men to turn to banditry in smaller groups, between 5 and 20, to rob people on the roads.
Jan 10, 2015 · The most famous political bandit from the 17th century is Redmond O’Hanlon, sometimes called the “Irish Robin Hood”. The word tory (Gaelic tórai , meaning "raider") was first used politically to refer to O'Hanlon and his fellow bandit-guerillas.
Bandits, Banditry and Landscapes of Crime in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. GREG BANKOFF. University of Auckland. With few exceptions, commentators agree that bandits were a major socio-economic.
Britannica Dictionary definition of BANDIT. [count] : a criminal who attacks and steals from travelers and who is often a member of a group of criminals. They were two of the most famous bandits [= outlaws, robbers] of the 19th century. — see also one-armed bandit.
David Picherit. From Pablo Escobar to Phoolan Devi, myths featuring bandits (more or less socially-responsible) have grown in popularity and reach and are disseminated through digital media.
