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banditry  

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  • Banditry is notoriously difficult to define. As a type of predatory, acquisitive, and violent action by groups of men (and sometimes women), it has a long history dating from ancient Greece, Rome, and China. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Banditry]

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