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dc.contributor.authorSeal, Graham
dc.contributor.editorJay S. Albanese
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:33:48Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:33:48Z
dc.date.created2015-07-16T06:21:54Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationSeal, G. 2014. Social Bandits, in Albanese, J.A. (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3754
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/9781118517383.wbeccj197
dc.description.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.

dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons
dc.subjectcross-cultural research
dc.subjectcrime
dc.subjectideology
dc.subjectcollective behaviour
dc.subjectclass (social)
dc.titleSocial Bandits
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.titleThe Encyclopaedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
dcterms.source.isbn9781118517383
dcterms.source.placeNew York
dcterms.source.chapter500
curtin.departmentHumanities Research and Graduate Studies
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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