Protest Policing and the National Survey of Protest Events

• In Event: 3451 - Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Refereed Roundtables (1 hour)
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: 11. Protest Policing and Repression

Abstract

The major theoretical insight in research on protest policing is that police presence is a response to the threat posed by either the event itself (Earl, Soule, and McCarthy 2003) or by the identity of the protestors (Davenport, Soule, and Armstrong 2011) to established power and inequality structures. This study uses the National Study of Protest Events to present first-of-its-kind, nationally representative data to add new information and national understandings of the policing of protest events. Previous research has not been able to adequately address organizations’ effects or the effects of size on protest policing, which these data enable. Preliminary results are shown and next steps for research using nationally representative data is discussed.

Author

• Bryant Crubaugh, Pepperdine University