Chapter 9 Historical Violence Flashcards
Acquisitive Mob
Members are motivated by greed and a desire to acquire goods
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Aggressive Crowd
Members share a common sense of purpose and are impulsive and emotional
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Agressive Mob
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Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots
Took place in and around London in June of 1780. For several days, mobs burned, pillaged, and looted, leaving around 500 people dead. The army was finally called in to quell the disorder.
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Black Lives Matter
An activist group founded in 2013 that works to prevent discrimination and violence against Blacks and other minority communities
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Casual Crowd
Members have no common purpose and still define themselves as individuals
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Cohesive Crowd
Members gather for a common purpose but still define themselves as individuals.
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Communal Violence
Consists of crowds erupting into uncontrolled and destructive violence in countless places and at numerous times for many different reasons. From ancient times to the present, many societies have confronted the problem of group violence—wracking cities, communities, and entire regions.
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Crime-Control Vigilantism
Collective violence targeted with the elimination of a crime.
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Crowd
A collection of individuals who may or may not share a common purpose.
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Escape Mob
Characterized by panicked behaviour; it is very dangerous and can be instantly aroused into mindless violence.
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Expressive Crowd
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Expressive Mob
Members share a common purpose and collective sense of anger and/or frustration.
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Guardian Angels
Labeled vigilantes by police, this group was founded in 1979 in the Bronx and is still active in a number of communities. Its members patrol the subways, streets, and neighborhoods in order to prevent crime. They can be identified by their red berets.
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Los Angeles City Riot of 1992
Immediate precipitants included the shooting of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African American teenager who had been shot in the back of the head by a Korean owner of a deli store after a dispute. The suspended sentence received by the deli owner was perceived as lenient by the African American community and served to reinforce a belief that African Americans were subject to different standards of justice compared with others.
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Lynch Mobs
Mobs that carry out extralegal execution.
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Mob
A crowd that is seen as being out of control.
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Mob Violence
Large groups of people engaging in what we perceive as mindless and excessive brutality.
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New York City Draft Riots of 1863
Began with a preplanned and organized protest of the draft and then spontaneously evolved into a race and class riot.
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Race Riots
Exploded into the U.S. consciousness during the 1960s and yet again in the 1990s; riots involving race are also ultimately about class.
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Regime-Control Vigilantism
Concerns groups that engage in violence in an effort to control the government if it strays from an acceptable course of action and policy.
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Riots
Group violence that occurs in particular political and social contexts that influence how they are perceived and defined.
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San Francisco Vigilance Committee
A vigilance committee formed by businessmen in the spring of 1851 to protect the lives and property of San Franciscans. The men created a constitution and bylaws and notified the community via the local newspaper that they would punish criminals.
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Sex Offender Registries
Regulations vary by state, but all states have some form of registry in which offenders convicted of various sexual assault statutes must register their location of residence.
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Social Group-Control Vigilantism
Groups whose goal is to keep some population group in their place, usually within the lower levels of class structure.
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Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Began after a young African American man named Diamond Dick Rowland stumbled into a White lady as he was entering an elevator and unwittingly grabbed her arm. The young lady assumed the worst and quickly claimed that he had assaulted her. Events escalated into some of the ugliest and most destructive racial violence this country has ever seen.
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Vigilante Groups
Groups that plan, organize, and carry out one of three types of mob violence.
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