A democratic response against criminalizing social protest a marginal view on violence, social harm, and active citizenship.

The action of different social movements and the social protest, as way of claiming measures aimed at the acquisition of rights, construct our socio-political world. These claims aim to find a minimum level of welfare. However, in unequal societies the demands seek the most basic dignity. By analyzing these manifestations we can see an articulation of various categories of violence: personal, structural and cultural. The mass media generally make visible the first, but is necessary –in the social studies– to analyze all of them. The judiciary (and other state institutions) often acts holding and playing the myth of equality (which is formal –legal– but not material). Under these cultural dynamics we need to think how democratize the state activity. Thus, restorative, participatory and deliberative are models that appear as tools against criminalization social movements and poverty, and thus influence the judicial practice.