Social Control Violence and Radicalization: Behavioral Data

Abstract

Utilizing self-reports of Kent State students' protest and socio-political activity before and after May 4, 1970, this study evaluates the plausibility of two hypotheses. The radicalization hypothesis suggests that exposure to extreme social control violence, such as that employed by National Guardsmen on Kent's campus, would lead to greater protest activity. The pacification hypothesis suggests that protest activity would decrease after exposure to social control violence, to be replaced by inactivity, or by “more acceptable” socio-political activity. The data support the radicalization hypothesis.

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