What's the psychology of a vigilante?

Question

What makes them tick?

Answer 1

According to Shotland's work on vigilantism, the response is most likely to occur when

1. The people strongly identify with the victim., thus the act brings up their own vulnerability.

2. The crime is especially threatening to the local community, so the person is motivated to prevent it from happening again.

3. The person is certain about the nature of the crime.  It is clear who the victim is.

4. Vigilantism usually happens in neighborhoods that are socially and ethnically homogenous.

Answer 2

In most cases they were victims that feel now that a loved one that was very close is gone. They have little to live for and therefore go on their own rampage to settle the score. Often times something just snaps inside them and they lose whatever respect they had for the judicial system.

Answer 3

They are people who are tired of today's law enforcement not doing their jobs and the courts letting troublemakers free.

Answer 4

a vigilante is gangsters

whom live off excitement.

by being thugs, thieves

druggies.

whom work in a bunch

in-case they might be.

shot, stabbed robbed .

hoods.

so basiclly they don't

care about any one,

not even self.

laney

Answer 5

watch the death wish movies. sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands to see justice.