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Policing The Lives Of Black And Latino Boys
New York University Press
July 2011
On Sale: June 27, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 0814776388
EAN: 9780814776384
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Non-Fiction
Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California in
the 1980s and 90s. A former gang member and juvenile
delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many
of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to
his hometown to study how inner city young Latino and
African American boys develop their sense of self in the
midst of crime and intense policing. Punished examines the
difficult lives of these young men, who now face punitive
policies in their schools, communities, and a world where
they are constantly policed and stigmatized. Rios followed a group of forty delinquent Black and Latino
boys for three years. These boys found themselves in a
vicious cycle, caught in a spiral of punishment and
incarceration as they were harassed, profiled, watched, and
disciplined at young ages, even before they had committed
any crimes, eventually leading many of them to fulfill the
destiny expected of them. But beyond a fatalistic account of
these marginalized young men, Rios finds that the very
system that criminalizes them and limits their
opportunities, sparks resistance and a raised consciousness
that motivates some to transform their lives and become
productive citizens. Ultimately, he argues that by
understanding the lives of the young men who are
criminalized and pipelined through the criminal justice
system, we can begin to develop empathic solutions which
support these young men in their development and to
eliminate the culture of punishment that has become an
overbearing part of their everyday lives.
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