On self-help in modern society

Black, Donald; Baumgartner, M. P.

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“…The reply expressed in the form of vigilante violence often contains two messages. First, as an expression of self‐help—violent or benign—vigilantism is a form of crime control (Black 1983, 1989, 1998; Black & Baumgartner 1987; Baker 2002). As Rosenbaum and Sederberg (1974) have argued, vigilante actions are an attempt to defend a given social order by resorting to means that contravene normative rules meant to safeguard that order in the first instance.…”

Section: Procedural Injustice and Violent Self‐helpmentioning

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“…There is a strong scholarly consensus about violent self‐help, which suggests that its incidence is inversely correlated with effective intervention by law (E. Anderson 1999; Black 1983; Black & Baumgartner 1987; Goldstein 2003; Brown 1975). Thus E. Anderson has located the antecedents of violent self‐help in a sociopolitical context in which effective intervention by the state has atrophied and personal responsibility for one's safety becomes paramount, “resulting in a kind of ‘people's law,’ based on ‘street justice’ ” (E. Anderson 1999:10).…”

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“…The attribution of the genesis of vigilante self‐help to a lack of effective state intervention implies, of course, a deterrent‐based foundation for the problem of order. As some researchers have pointed out, however, the presence or absence of state intervention may not be the central consideration in diminishing recourse to violent self‐help (Black & Baumgartner 1987:34; Wacquant 1993; Weisburd 1988). The prevalence and persistence of violent self‐help speaks, unquestionably, to the primary necessity of state substantive performance, measured by the provision of security against victimization.…”

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Self-Help, Policing, and Procedural Justice: Ghanaian Vigilantism and the Rule of Law

2009

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Public recourse to vigilante self-help has often been attributed to a lack of effective state intervention; less attention has been given to the character of this intervention. Using the Tylerian procedural justice perspective, I argue in this article that perceived procedural injustice contributes to increased public support for violent self-help mechanisms such as vigilante violence. The current study tests this theoretical argument using survey data of 374 residents of Accra, Ghana. The results show that age, education, and police trustworthiness were the most significant predictors of support for vigilante self-help. The impacts of procedural fairness were found to be embraced within police trustworthiness, but perceptions of police effectiveness and experience of police corruption were not statistically significant predictors of vigilante support.

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Self-Help, Policing, and Procedural Justice: Ghanaian Vigilantism and the Rule of Law

2009

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“…An upset roommate, for example, can take preventive or corrective actions on his or her own, often even without the knowledge of the other toward whom they are directed. In this sense managerial responses provide ways of dealing with troubles without having to present a remedial proposal to the troubling other, and hence contain the quality of individual initiative that has frequently been analyzed as unilateral “self‐help” (Black & Baumgartner 1980; Ellickson 1991).…”

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Responding to Roommate Troubles: Reconsidering Informal Dyadic Control

Emerson

2008

Law Soc Rev

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Existing analyses of informal control within dyadic relations neglect the nonpenal responses that characterize many such control efforts, and they give minimal attention to the interactional and interpretive processes that characterize such responses. And while dispute transformation provides a welldeveloped model of the development of dyadic disputes, this model is limited in prespecifying ''injury'' as the starting point for these processes and in neglecting informal reactions other than ''claiming.'' Integrating theories of informal control and dispute transformation, this article provides a case study analyzing the nature and processes of informal reactions to troubles involving college roommates, identifying three general categories of such response: managerial reactions, which involve unilateral, nonconfrontational efforts to manage the consequences or implications of the trouble or to change indirectly the troubling behavior; complaint-making reactions, where the troubled party attempts to get the other to change the disturbing behavior; and distancing and punitive reactions, which are relationally despairing responses marked by open confrontation and hostility.

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“…In contrast to avoidance where victims of ceiling leaks are left on their own to cope, neighbors working together to solve the problem in a mutually satisfactory fashion is the hallmark of self‐help 24 . What some have described as the “radically decentralized” nature of self‐help leads to wide variation in outcomes (Black and Baumgartner 1980, 206). The lack of procedural rigamarole allows for relatively speedy resolution.…”

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Resolving Problems among Neighbors in Post‐Soviet Russia: Uncovering the Norms of the Pod”ezd

Hendley

2011

Law soc. inq.

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The article presents findings from a qualitative study of how Russians deal with neighbors who have leaked water onto them. In the Russian context, this is neither an uncommon nor a small problem. Building on US‐based studies of neighborhood relations, the article lays out three alternative strategies: avoidance, self‐help, and third‐party intervention. The Russian participants lived in close proximity to one another and had little opportunity for exit. The study documents a strong preference for self‐help, confirming the potency of the relational distance hypothesis for Russia. In contrast to their US counterparts, the Russian participants' lack of exit did not give rise to more intense and prolonged disputes. The findings suggest that there is a strong informal norm in favor of neighbors resolving disputes among themselves and that the residents who share common entryways (pod”ezdy) work out the parameters of acceptable behavior over time. These informal norms shape Russians' legal consciousness.

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On self-help in modern society

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Self-Help, Policing, and Procedural Justice: Ghanaian Vigilantism and the Rule of Law

Self-Help, Policing, and Procedural Justice: Ghanaian Vigilantism and the Rule of Law

Responding to Roommate Troubles: Reconsidering Informal Dyadic Control

Resolving Problems among Neighbors in Post‐Soviet Russia: Uncovering the Norms of the Pod”ezd

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