 Hobsbawm's book discusses the bandit as a symbol, and mediated idea, and some of the outlaws he refers to are Pancho Villa, Lampião, Ned Kelly, Dick Turpin, Juraj Jánošík, Sándor Rózsa, Billy the Kid and Carmine Crocco, among others.The colloquial sense of an outlaw as bandit or brigand is the subject of the following passage by Hobsbawm