Real Life Superheroes (RLSH) and human potential ethic

Adam Possamai

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48129-1_393

Real Life Superheroes (RLSH) and human potential ethic

Adam Possamai

School of Social Sciences

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Real Life Superheroes (RLSH) is a movement in which people dress up as superheroes and walk through the streets of cities, acting as a type of neighborhood watch and reporting to the authorities any crimes they witness. Crime prevention is only one activity among the community services that RLSH provide. Some examples of such activities are food drives, charity/fundraising, and raising public awareness of known local offenders. They do not necessarily fight against crime (and if they do it is more as a bystander intervention than with vigilantism), but rather act as unofficial, and often untrained, social workers helping those in need, such as the homeless (Iouchkov 2012).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies
Editors	Scott T. Allison, James K. Beggan, George R. Goethals
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	1713-1715
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031481291
ISBN (Print)	9783031481284
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48129-1_393
Publication status	Published - 2024

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