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lawless towns - Coggle Diagram
lawless towns
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vigilanties
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in response, the citizens set up 'vigilance groups', which became known as vigilanties. these people would hunt down and punish suspects without the legal system.
miners' courts were created in mining camps. here, a group of fellow miners who judge cases and claims.
isolated settlements
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this meant there could be no way of enforcing the law within communities or with criminals trying to attack these communities.
gangs of san francisco
the population of california grew to 380,000 people by 1858. san francisco was its largest town at the time. the gold rush was unsuccessful for most migrants. they were now stuck on the west coast, away from families, without any money or jobs. these are the perfect conditions for gangs to recruit people into a criminal life.
the homicide (murder) records in san francisco show that there were suspected murderers as the hounds (who were an anti foreign migrant gang) and the chileans (who were migrated from latin america)
gangs of new york
in new york, between 1830s and 50s, the forty thieves of five points and the bowery boys of lower manhattan were notorious gangs.