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This chapter deals with developments in State mechanisms attempting to repress youth-led protest and quieten young dissenting voices. Governments have sought to prevent and criminalise young people’s dissent as part of a securitisation process involving restrictive legislation, forceful policing and increased monitoring of protesters. These measures have created legislative, physical, psychological and electronic barriers to protest for young people. The chapter first provides a synopsis of changes to the legislative framework regarding protests in Britain that is increasingly authoritarian. It then documents the militarisation of policing tools, methods and strategies. Last, there is a discussion on the impact of repressive measures on public protest and mainstream media representations of young protesters that inevitably affect the mobilisation of young people in their democratic right to protest.
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Pickard, S. (2019). Criminalisation and Repression of Young People’s Political Protest. In: Politics, Protest and Young People. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57788-7_14
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