Proud to Punish

The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice

Gilles Gayer, Laurent Gayer, Cynthia Scoch , Trista Selous

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Stanford University Press
18 December 2023

Comparative politics; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Criminal law & procedure

"A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of ""rough justice"": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law. While taking many forms, including vigilantism, lynch mobs, people's courts, and death squads, all seekers of rough justice thrive on the deliberate blurring of lines between law enforcers and troublemakers. Digital networks have provided a profitable arena for vigilantes, who use social media to build a following and publicize their work, as they degrade the bodies of the accused for purposes of edification and entertainment. It is this unabashed pride to punish, and the new punitive celebrations that actualize, publicize, and commercialize it, that this book brings into focus. Recounted in lively prose, Proud to Punish is both a global map of rough justice today and an insight into the deeper nature of punishment as a social and political phenomenon."

By: Gilles Gayer, Laurent Gayer
Translated by: Cynthia Scoch, Trista Selous
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781503636569
ISBN 10: 1503636569
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 18 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues is a CNRS Senior Research Professor at Sciences Po-CERI, Paris. He is the author of Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation (2010).Laurent Gayer is a CNRS Senior Research Professor at Sciences Po-CERI, Paris. He is the author of Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City (2014).

Reviews for Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice

"""Proud to Punish offers a brilliant, compelling analysis of contemporary vigilantism and the politics of extrajudicial punishment. The authors offer innovative insights into crimefighting discourses, retributive violence, its public reception, and responses from law enforcement authorities; and vividly illustrate how these factors become implicated in local and global vigilante configurations.""—Atreyee Sen, co-editor of Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Violence and Justice ""Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer lead us on a visceral journey across the globe to understand contemporary vigilantism. With a rare blend of theoretical sophistication and empirical grounding, Proud to Punish asks us to confront the fact that vigilantism is neither a relic of the past, nor a product of failed states, but rather a broadly embraced force of the present.""—Harel Shapira, The University of Texas at Austin ""Proud to Punish is a must-read for all interested in global vigilantism and lynching. Admirably capacious in ranging across space and time, the book offers significant insights on the rough justice impulse in a wide variety of contemporary and historical contexts.""—Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching"