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Preferred term
lynching and vigilante justice
Definition
- Lynching, also referred to as lynch law and Lynch's law, is the illegal execution by a mob of a person suspected of a crime or some other prohibited behavior. Lynching is today a felony in the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Lynching and Vigilante Justice]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/lynching_and_vigilante_justice
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