The Criminalization of Social Protest: A State of the Question

Authors

  • Alejandro Alvarado Alcázar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v10i1.2749

Keywords:

social movements, collective action, social protest, criminalization of social protest, repression

Abstract

Recently, the criminalization of protest has been placed as a topic of academic and non-academic discussion in Latin America. Despite this, the debate has developed, in many cases, in the midst of a conceptual uncertainty about what is (and what is not) the criminalization of protest. The present article intends to contribute to this discussion through the construction of a state of the question that recovers the main works developed around this topic, placing particular emphasis on what has been produced for the Latin American case. The information has been obtained through the systematic consultation of bibliographic databases and it has been ordered trying to answer three fundamental questions: 1) what is the criminalization of the protest? 2) What are its most common manifestations? and, 3) what role does the State play?

Author Biography

  • Alejandro Alvarado Alcázar

    MSc. en Sociología. Docente e investigador, Escuela de Sociología e Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Costa Rica. Entre sus intereses de investigación se encuentran los conflictos, movimientos y protestas sociales

Published

2019-12-13

Issue

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

“The Criminalization of Social Protest: A State of the Question”. 2019. Revista Rupturas 10 (1): 25-43. https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v10i1.2749.