Introduction: Vigilantism
an Overview

Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina

Part I: The Anglophone World

1. American Vigilantism
Popular Justice and Popular Culture

Michael Asimow

2. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture
The British Experience

Peter Robson

3. Vigilante Frontier Communities on Australian Screens: Bushrangers, Bikies, and Bogans

Lili Ṕquet

4. Vigilante Justice in Canada

Rebecca Johnson

Part II: European Experiences

5. Vigilante Justice in Germany

Franziska St|rmer

6. Vigilantism
the Greek Approach

Nickos Myrtou and Stamatis Poulakidakos

7. Vigilantes, the Law and Popular Culture
The Italian Experience

Ferdinando Spina

8. The Punishing Hand of Vigilante Justice in Poland

Joanna Osiejewicz

9. Margins Without Justice: Revenge in Jôo Canijo's Portuguese Cinema

J͠lia Garraio

Part III: A South American Perspective

10. "You Said Perpetual!" Approaches to Vigilantism in Argentine Culture

Sebastian Viqueira

11. Vigilante Justice and the Rule of Death: The Existential Threat to the State and Its People in Brazil

Pedro Fortes