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Punished : policing the lives of Black and Latino boys /

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 Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rios, Victor M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2011]
Colección:New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Hypercriminalization. Dreams deferred: the patterns of punishment in Oakland ; The flatlands of Oakland and the youth control complex ; The labeling hype: coming of age in the era of mass incarceration ; The coupling of criminal justice and community institutions
  • Part 2. Consequences. "Dummy smart": misrecognition, acting out, and "going dumb" ; Proving manhood: masculinity as a rehabilitative tool ; Guilty by association: acting white or acting lawful?
  • Conclusion: toward a youth support complex
  • Appendix: beyond Jungle-Book tropes.