CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE GROWING TREND TO THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE FREE MEETING AND MANIFESTATION

Abstract

The article deals with the recent social movements that have taken the streets of Brazil, notably from the year of 2013, on demands for improvements to certain segments of society, and the tendency to criminalize these movements. Some forms of manifestations will be analyzed, based on bibliographic research, and from the inductive and deductive method it will be pointed out the reasons that lead to the attempt to criminalize the action of the ones who take part in the movements. The subject is of essential importance, since social movements, although they may, at times, cause upheavals, are no more than a form of democratic representation.