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    Social Bandits

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    Authors
    Seal, Graham
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Citation
    Seal, G. 2014. Social Bandits, in Albanese, J.A. (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
    Source Title
    The Encyclopaedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
    DOI
    10.1002/9781118517383.wbeccj197
    ISBN
    9781118517383
    School
    Humanities Research and Graduate Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3754
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The concept of the “social” bandit was introduced by the late historian, Eric Hobsbawm, to describe “noble robbers” or outlaw heroes who resist oppressions visited on the poor and weak. The English Robin Hood is perhaps the best-known example, but such figures appear in folk traditions around the world and across at least several thousand years of history. Hobsbawm's contention that certain nominally criminal figures could be considered fighters against oppression, and therefore supported by their environing communities, has been influential and controversial across many fields of scholarship.

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