vigilantism

IPA: vɪdʒʌɫˈæntɪzʌm

The activities of a vigilante; acting outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.

Examples of "vigilantism" in Sentences

Any public intervention in the field is dismissed as "vigilantism".
Actually, it features no super powers, and the vigilantism is more Home Alone than Death Wish.
And I wouldn ` t even use the word vigilantism, although you know, it ` s really rooted in that word vigilant, which is a good thing for parents.
Having been raised to believe that guns are bad and that aggressive self-defense aka vigilantism, was the province of reactionary yahoos and bigots,
Harper said previous government refrained from stiffening the law because "they wanted to avoid vigilantism, which is a genuine threat to the rule of law."
And even if what happened last week can be called vigilantism, we should all remember that movie audiences tended to side with the Charles Bronson-type characters in "Death Wish" and similar movies.