Yess, of course. Letting victims of crime set the appropriate punishment - that would be a sensible course of action, wouldn't it? Great for justice.
Why bother with courts at all, when you could just let the Police arrest known troublemakers (any Gypo, the unemployed, anyone whose skin is a different colour, anyone with a body piercing, journos, striking firemen - you know - scum) and hand them over to anyone who has been burgled. Especially if they have a record of gun crime themselves, and so much the better if they are known to be unstable and verging on the psychotic, with a penchant for lurid talk about revenge and vigilantee action. And so much the better if the victim also has links with the National Front or British movement.