Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?

Starting in the 1960s, the Belgian gendarmerie renewed its crowd control interventions in response to new forms of protest and the evolving repertoire of actions by protesters. It initiated arrest practices aimed at avoiding massive confrontations. These operations, based on criteria set by the gend...

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Main Author: Élie Teicher
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Language:fra
Published: Association Paul Langevin 2025-04-01
Series:Cahiers d’histoire
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/25176
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description Starting in the 1960s, the Belgian gendarmerie renewed its crowd control interventions in response to new forms of protest and the evolving repertoire of actions by protesters. It initiated arrest practices aimed at avoiding massive confrontations. These operations, based on criteria set by the gendarmes, restricted the freedom to protest. They play an important role in the displacement and invisibilization of state violence highlighted by researchers. Moreover, arrests are necessary for potential judicial prosecutions. This article examines the development of these techniques and their effects on the rights of protesters. By studying police conceptions, it shows how arrests have taken on a new role in the coercive system. Then, based on the specific case of the steelworkers' demonstration in March 1982, the article examines how arrests contribute to the shift of state violence by being one of the cogs in the judicial sanction mechanism.
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Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?
Cahiers d’histoire
crowd policing ; arrests ; law enforcement ; demonstration ; police violence ; state violence ; repression
title Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?
title_full Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?
title_fullStr Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?
title_full_unstemmed Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?
title_short Après les avoir surveillés, comment faut-il les punir ?
title_sort apres les avoir surveilles comment faut il les punir
topic crowd policing ; arrests ; law enforcement ; demonstration ; police violence ; state violence ; repression
url https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/25176
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