Vigilantism: An Analysis of Establishment Violence
Vigilantism: An Analysis of Establishment Violence
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自卫行为：对当权者暴力的分析
DOI：
10.2307/421337
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发表时间：
1974
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
P. Sederberg
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文献类型：
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作者：
H. Rosenbaum;P. Sederberg
在过去的十年中，有相当数量的学者研究了社会和政治暴力的性质、原因和预防，他们的主要兴趣可能是观察亚洲的革命战争和美国的社会动荡，一直是研究旨在改变既定秩序的暴力。这些学者中的一些人已经开发出复杂的因果模型，试图确定导致人们转向暴力作为改变政治制度的手段的条件。对这类暴力的认定与通常对政权实施的“合法”胁迫和个人实施的“非法”胁迫所作的区分有关。后一种私人强制超越了政治制度所设定的界限;一个例子可以从合法的父母管教和儿童暴行之间的区别中看出。私人相互之间或对政权的非法胁迫可被界定为暴力。当然，边界是灵活的;在严重的社会分裂时期，如内战，它们可能是灵活的。
During the past decade a significant number of scholars have investigated the nature, causes, and prevention of social and political violence.1 Their primary interest, motivated perhaps by observations of revolutionary war in Asia and social turmoil in the United States, has been the study of violence aimed at changing the established order. Some of these scholars have developed sophisticated causal models in an attempt to identify the conditions which lead people to turn to violence as a means of transforming political systems.2 Although the prevailing concern with revolution is understandable, it obscures a second form of violence-that designed to maintain the established sociopolitical order. The identification of this type of violence is related to the distinction commonly made between the "legitimate" coercion exercised by the regime and the "illegitimate" coercion engaged in by private individuals. The latter private coercion exceeds the boundaries set by the political system; an example may be seen in the difference between legitimate parental discipline and child brutality. Illegitimate coercion directed by private persons against one another or against the regime may be defined as violence.3 The exercise of coercion by the regime is also generally viewed as regulated by these formal boundaries. The boundaries are, of course, flexible; and at times of severe social disruption, such as internal war, they may be