#  Caroline Light Article Published on Slate.com 

 





February 28, 2022

 

 

 [](/people/caroline-light)WGS [Professor Caroline Light's](/people/caroline-light) essay on the steady creep of “stand-your-ground” ideology -- co-authored with legal expert [Janae Thomas](https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/school-of-interdisciplinary-global-studies/people/jthomas.aspx) -- has been published on *Slate.com*. Light and Thomas's piece, ["How Trayvon Martin's Killing Ushered In a New Era of Vigilante Violence,"](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/black-lives-matter-trayvon-martin-and-the-rise-of-vigilante-violence.html) details how, a decade after Martin’s killing, vigilantism is on the rise, and our already tenuous grip on justice is slipping.

 Caroline Light is the author of *Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense* (Beacon Press, 2017). Her blog, [In the Crosshairs](https://hphr.org/columnist-dr-caroline-light/), appears on the website of the School of Public Health's *HPHR Journal.*



 

 

 



 

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