When Rubber Bullets Ricochet: Functional Victimization and Police-Protester Interactions
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2021-12
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[Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
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Protests frequently come into contact with the police, and those interactions can become central to how a movement is perceived. The functional victimization hypothesis posits that state violence against demonstrators will generate positive movement outcomes by triggering sympathy with demonstrators and opposition to the state among observers. To test this hypothesis, this paper relies on a survey experiment measuring responses to police-protester interactions, focusing on 2020 Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 shutdown protests. The study aims to measure how likely it is that someone who reads about various police-protester interactions expresses greater support for and willingness to join future demonstrations.
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Thesis (B.A.) - Indiana University, Department of Political Science, 2021
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Black Lives Matter, policing, violence, tactics, protest
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