banditry
Armed outlaw activity
Banditry is the activity of bandits—robbery, plundering, and lawlessness, typically by armed groups operating outside settled society.
The word often describes organized criminal activity in regions where law enforcement is weak: The countryside was plagued by banditry.
It can extend to any predatory or exploitative behavior: corporate banditry.
bushranger
Australian colonial outlaw
- bandoleroSpanish frontier outlaw
- theftstealing, larceny, steal, burglary, robbery
- plunderlooting, loot, booty, pillaging, spoils
- frontier crimescattle rustling, horse theft, train robbery, stagecoach robbery, bank robbery
- historical crimehighway robbery, pickpocketing, burglary, arson, piracy
- historical crimestreason, heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, piracy
- robberyrobbery, armed robbery, bank robbery, holdup, hold-up
lawfulness
banditrylaw and order
Governance through enforced rules
lawfulness · law enforcement · policing · legitimacy · justice
social order vs. chaos
banditrypeace
Freedom from disturbance
order · security · civil order · public safety · protection
protection vs. predation
banditryprotection
Guarding against harm
guardianship · safeguarding · law enforcement · constabulary · vigilance
- one-armed banditLever-operated gambling machine
- make out like a banditGain disproportionate advantage
- masked banditDark-eyed nocturnal mammal
- one-arm banditLever-activated gambling device
- time banditSomething stealing your hours
- trash banditGarbage-raiding masked mammal