Extrajudicial punishment.
The (unlawful) retaliation for an injustice that the affected person carries out himself.
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Examples for "street justice"
Examples for "street justice"
1He liked to refer to it as ' street justice'.
2Some instant street justice keeps everyone on their toes.
3Most bystanders pretend not to notice, accustomed to this sort of " street justice".
4A few days later, someone shot him in the face-probablyas an act of revenge or street justice, police theorize.
1Foster thought this was frontier justice and urged another objection.
2Quinn, a passionate advocate for the mentally ill, and Bo, the defense attorney with a unique sense of frontier justice.
3They threw at and near batters regularly with a frontier justice mentality, the kind of machismo that mostly had disappeared from the game.
4"I'll settle for frontier justice and getting the hell away."
Translations for frontier justice