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Violence and Safety: The Debate about Democracy and Authoritarian Politics
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC29 Deviance and Social Control (host committee)
Language: Spanish, French and English
Session Type: Oral
Among the current social conflicts, the phenomena of diffuse violence have increased.. One finds multiple forms of violence in the contemporary societies. In other words, we face contemporary forms of social control that are characteristic of a repressive state plus a crisis in the welfare state.
We may summarise the last three decades of the contemporary sociological production in terms of a cognitive map of violence.
The first set is about the State, from the analysis of the police to the Criminal Justice selectivity and prison studies, but also the studies about political violence. The second, the analysis of diffuse violence. This set refers to violence in its phenomenology: political violence, lethal violence, criminal violence, institutional violence, sexual violence and symbolic violence.
Third, the collective actors of these social conflicts are both the authentic peoples and the landless peasants. The fourth set emphasises gender-based violence and conflict derived from male domination, the violence against women in different ways.
The fifth deals with the social space of studies: the city, urban violence, but also the innovative practices observed in territories, regions or neighbourhoods.
The sixth set refers to criminal organisations, consolidated from the prison, but with an increasing role in illicit business.
The main debate is about the construction of alternatives of social control and affirmation of human rights against authoritarianism and by overcoming penal regulation through processes of social emancipation.