Self-Help, Policing, and Procedural Justice: Ghanaian Vigilantism and the Rule of Law.
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...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 245 - 270 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
June 2009
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