USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vigilantism (/vɪdʒɪˈlæntɪzəm/) is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority.

Detailed explanation-2: -/ˌvɪdʒ.əˈlæn.t̬i/ a person who tries in an unofficial way to prevent crime, or to catch and punish someone who has committed a crime, especially because they do not think that official organizations, such as the police, are controlling crime effectively. Vigilantes usually join together to form groups.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vigilantes in the nineteenth-century American West formed self-appointed groups, or committees, to seize the duties of law enforcement and judicial authority in situations when citizens found law enforcement lacking or inadequate. These groups acted outside the normal structure of frontier government.

Detailed explanation-4: -If you’re a vigilante, you might take the law into your own hands by trying to catch or punish someone in your own way. If you wrestle jaywalkers down to the ground, you might be called a vigilante.