This article introduces the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset. Lynching is a surprisingly prevalent form of collective violence, but the systematic study of this phenomenon has previously been hampered by a lack of cross-national event data. The LYLA data covers reported lynching incidents across Latin America between 2010 and 2019. In total, it includes 2818 lynching events in 18 countries. The data features information on the alleged wrongdoing that motivated the event, the type of violence deployed, the size of the mob, the exact date of the event and geo-coded coordinates capturing where the event took place at the street level. The LYLA data provides an empirical basis to assess questions concerning the conditions that give rise to lynching, the impact of lynching on communities and social processes, and policies to prevent this form of violence. This article introduces the rationale for the data collection, the coding rules and procedures, and offers an illustrative example of how this data can be used, focusing on state illegitimacy as a key condition for lynching.

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拉丁美洲私刑 (LYLA) 数据集简介

本文介绍拉丁美洲私刑 (LYLA) 数据集。私刑是一种令人惊讶的普遍的集体暴力形式，但此前由于缺乏跨国事件数据，对这种现象的系统研究受到了阻碍。LYLA 数据涵盖 2010 年至 2019 年间拉丁美洲报告的私刑事件。总共包括 18 个国家的 2818 起私刑事件。这些数据包含有关引发该事件的涉嫌不当行为、部署的暴力类型、暴民规模、事件的确切日期以及捕获事件在街道上发生位置的地理编码坐标的信息。LYLA 数据为评估有关私刑发生的条件、私刑对社区和社会进程的影响以及防止这种形式暴力的政策等问题提供了实证基础。本文介绍了数据收集的基本原理、编码规则和程序，并提供了如何使用这些数据的说明性示例，重点关注国家非法性作为私刑的关键条件。