Política criminal y barrismo en Colombia

Abstract

The primary purpose of this work is to achieve in the reader a reflection about the results of the State's activity to combat violence in the barras bravas. Colombian criminal policy has focused on seeking exhaustive control of the barista's behavior and harshly punishing him, as well as investigating information about the causes of violence, but has not materialized social efforts to eliminate them; citizens who commit criminal acts within the framework of baristas in soccer are discriminated against or even feared, and the media, administrative, police, judicial authorities, and social actors publicly label baristas with derogatory terms such as “misfits, antisocial, vandals”, which can generate discrimination against baristas. To achieve this reflection, in addition to the consultation and theoretical analysis, direct observation was made during most of the matches played by the Club los Millonarios as a local, in the Bogotá stadium, Nemecio Camacho "El Campín", during the year 2017 and 2018 attending before the start of sporting events to seek the collection of useful information. Likewise, a survey was carried out in 2023, considering the usefulness of the eventual variability of the data obtained. Followers of the Club Los Millonarios soccer team, from Bogotá, members of the blue commando bars and the blue rain, popular traditional bars of the team, also fans attending the eastern stand of the Nemecio Camacho "el Campín" stadium, as well as also citizen soccer fans, fans of other teams and the general public, in order to inquire about the knowledge that the community has regarding the barrista phenomenon and violence in soccer. Based on the above, additions to existing norms are suggested to include social barrismo in a tangible way in Colombian criminal policy.