Far-Right vigilantes and crime: law and order providers or common criminals? The lessons from Greece, Russia, and Ukraine
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2022.2086666" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2022.2086666</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2022.2086666" target="_blank" >10.1080/14683857.2022.2086666</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Far-Right vigilantes and crime: law and order providers or common criminals? The lessons from Greece, Russia, and Ukraine
Original language description
The extant literature claims that vigilante groups protect the traditional societal order by taking the law into their own hands. Vigilantes target entire categories of ‘others’ to prevent and punish their alleged criminality or norm-breaking. These activities are often connected with far-right political movements. However, the literature fails to explain why far-right vigilante groups are frequently involved in purely criminal activities (like extortion or robbery), despite their public presentation as bastions of law and order. This text provides a tentative theory of the political-criminal convergence in political violence under the disguise of community protection against crime and norm-breaking. This theory is demonstrated through the cases of Russia (Russian National Unity), Greece (Golden Dawn), and Ukraine (Azov movement).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
ISSN
1468-3857
e-ISSN
1743-9639
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
479-502
UT code for WoS article
000808472400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85131677101