Craig B. Little, Christopher P. Sheffield, Frontiers and Criminal Justice: English Private Prosecution Societies and American Vigilantism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, American Sociological Review, Vol. 48, No. 6 (Dec., 1983), pp. 796-808
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