Ebook: Punished: policing the lives of Black and Latino boys
Author: Rios Victor M
- Tags: African American boys--California--Oakland--Social conditions, African American boys--Social conditions, Hispanic American boys--California--Oakland--Social conditions, Hispanic American boys--Social conditions, Punishment, Punishment--California--Oakland, Ungdomsbrottslingar--sociala förhållanden--Förenta staterna, Punishment -- California -- Oakland, African American boys -- California -- Oakland -- Social conditions, Hispanic American boys -- California -- Oakland -- Social conditions, African American
- Series: New perspectives in crime deviance and law series
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: New York University Press
- City: New York;California;Oakland
- Language: English
- epub
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...