banditry
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Carmine Crocco's lieutenant Agostino Sacchitiello and members of his band from [[Bisaccia, Campania photographed in 1862]] Banditry is a type of organized crime committed by outlaws typically involving the threat or use of violence. A person who engages in banditry is known as a bandit and primarily commits crimes such as extortion, robbery, kidnapping, and murder, either as an individual or in groups. Banditry is a vague concept of criminality and in modern usage can be synonymous with gangsterism, brigandage, marauding, terrorism, piracy, and thievery.
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- Definitions
- Types
- Social bandit
- Piracy
- Cattle raiding
- History
- Europe
- Medieval period
- Brigandry in Italy
- Nazi-occupied Europe
- China
- Ming China
- Causes and opportunities
- Techniques, organization, livelihood, and risks
- Future paths of bandits
- Republican period
- List
- Americas
- Asia
- Europe
- Oceania
- Related occupations
- References
thumb|250px|Carmine Crocco's lieutenant Agostino Sacchitiello and members of his band from [[Bisaccia, Campania photographed in 1862]] Banditry is a type of organized crime committed by outlaws typically involving the threat or use of violence. A person who engages in banditry is known as a bandit and primarily commits crimes such as extortion, robbery, kidnapping, and murder, either as an individual or in groups. Banditry is a vague concept of criminality and in modern usage can be synonymous with gangsterism, brigandage, marauding, terrorism, piracy, and thievery.
==Definitions== The term bandit (introduced to English via Italian around 1776) originates with the early Germanic legal practice of outlawing criminals, termed *bamnan (English ban). The legal term in the Holy Roman Empire was Acht or Reichsacht, translated as "Imperial ban". In modern Italian, the equivalent word "bandito" literally means banned or a banned person.