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Law and Order Open Access

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    November 2024
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This chapter explains how dons derive authority from their role in providing “law and order,” maintaining community norms and public security. Despite their engagement in criminal activities, many residents see dons as actually offering a more trustworthy form of justice and law enforcement than state institutions do. In light of their experiences with a legal system perceived as ineffective, corrupt, and biased, dons’ “community justice” system may appear not only more accessible but also more legitimate. While community justice is certainly an imperfect system, residents’ overall positive appraisals suggest its centrality in dons’ claims to authority. The chapter conceptualizes the community justice system in terms of legal hybridity, as the entanglement of multiple legal systems. In addition, the chapter emphasizes the sensorial dimension of law and order, discussing how material and aesthetic interventions can work to produce a place-specific sense of justice and security.

legal hybridity, legal pluralism, security, vigilantism, violence
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