Social bandit or social crime is a term invented by the historian Eric Hobsbawm in his 1965 classic study of popular forms of resistance, Primitive Rebels. He further expanded the field in the 1969 study, Bandits.
Hobsbawm's key thesis was that outlaws were individuals living on the edges of rural societies by robbing and plundering, who are often seen by ordinary people as heroes or beacons of popular resistance. An outlaw or bandit is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry; the word literally means "outside the Law " by folk-etymology from the original He called it a form of "pre-historic social movement", by contrast with the organized labour movement. The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better
Social banditry is a widespread phenomenon known in many societies and some argue that it still exists in remote areas and on high seas (pirates). Piracy is Robbery committed at sea or sometimes on shore without a commission from a sovereign Nation (as distinct from Privateering Later social scientists have also discussed the terms applicability to more modern forms of crime, like street crime and the drug economy.
Further reading
- Benedetto Croce, Angelillo (Angelo Duca). Benedetto Croce ( February 25, 1866 – November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic idealist Philosopher, and Capo di banditi, 1892
- Eric Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels (1965) and Bandits (1969)
- John Lea, Social crime revisited (2002): http://www.bunker8.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/misc/socrime.html
See also
- Cangaço
- Salvatore Giuliano
- hajduk
- Robin Hood
- Jesse James
- Juraj Jánošík (1688-1713)
- klephts
- Rapparee
- Soapy Smith
- uskoks
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