Vigilantism

For some localized information about Vigilantes, see List of CSA/anti-pedophile proponents.

Vigilantism is self-appointed "policing" and doing of "justice". In the minor attracted community, the term is especially used for people that practice legal entrapment, out various people as "pedophiles", or try to make people's lives miserable or unbearable.

In research literature

CSA prevention program researchers complain about vigilantism as a barrier to MAP's access to professional help.

• Briggs, P. Simon, W.T. and Simonson, S. (2011) An exploratory study of internet-initiated sexual offenses and the chat room sex offender:Has the internet enabled a new typology of sex offender? Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 23, 72-91.

  "The chat room sex offender presents a significant clinical issue to treatment providers as a live victim does not exist. Thus, it is unclear if Internet sex stings prevent incidents of child sexual exploitation and may result in convictions of individuals who may never have abused a child."

Are vigilante attacks on pedophiles a hate crime?

The question of whether sting operations and/or physical attacks which are motivated by the alleged offender being perceived as a minor-attracted person, and/or belonging to the MAP community, should be considered a hate crime under law, has been discussed in scholarship.

• Laura Haas. (February, 2022). 'The boundaries of victim protection criteria: should the victimisation of people with paedophilia be recognised as a form of hate crime under criminal law?', in Broad Street Humanities Review, Issue 6 (21 pages).

  Abstract excerpt: "People with paedophilia are a highly stigmatised group - even more so over recent years in which reports of child sexual abuse have risen, and sensationalist media coverage intensified. For people with paedophilia, whom many assume to also be sex offenders, the risk of exposure to prejudice-driven crime is high. In this article, I pose the question of whether people with paedophilia should be included in hate crime legislation across the world. I conclude that they should be included under the so-called vulnerability-and-deinvididualisation approach that I suggest in this paper. According to this approach, groups should be protected by hate crime legislation, if they are discriminated against significantly more often than groups who only experience prejudice-driven crimes on a rare basis (vulnerability). Furthermore, they should only be protected if the crime is targeted towards a whole group instead of a specific individual (deinvidualisation)." [...] "I conclude that PWP [people with paedophilia] should be included in hate crime laws." (p. 17).

See Also

• Validity Policing - Self-Appointed Social Media policing.
• Pedophobia
• Perverted Justice - Defunct American Organization.
• Absolute Zero - An additional publicity campaign, allied with PJ.
• Operation Underground Railroad - Vigilante NGO.
• Dark Justice (British example) and Creep Catchers of Canada.
• Brad Willman and Predator Hunter.
• Chris Wittwer - a British Vigilante.

Gallery

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  Dutch: "If pedophilia is sexuality, then burying pedos is gardening"
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  Nov 16, 2021 - Proud Boy

External Links

• Wikipedia article listing Predator Hunter among others.
• OCAG - Politically correct British term for "anti-paedophile" vigilantes, incorrectly implying that child abuse is their primary motivating factor.