The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Rios, Victor M.

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“…Understanding these interactions is important given that an individual's SES is believed to shape his or her perceptions of the police and is presumed to be tied to levels of concentrated disadvantage and its correlates (i.e., joblessness, segregation, and crime). Research suggests that this association is particularly relevant for minority groups because they are more likely to reside in underprivileged areas and are prone to hyper-criminalization by law enforcement (Brunson, 2007;Brunson & Miller, 2006;Rios, 2006). The close association between race and SES in shaping attitudes toward the police is firmly established in the literature for African Americans (Anderson, 1990;Massey & Denton, 1993;Sampson, 1987;Shaw & McKay, 1942;W.…”

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confidence: 91%

Attitudes and Marginalization: Examining American Indian Perceptions of Law Enforcement Among Adolescents

Redner-Vera

Galeste

2015

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

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This article examines minority youth perceptions of and attitudes toward the police, with particular attention given to American Indian youth. Using data gathered from the national evaluation of the Gang Resistance Education and Training program, we included a sample of 5,477 eighth-grade students across 11 U.S. cities in analyses. Results indicated a strong negative correlation between American Indian youth and perceptions of the police. Controlling for perceived neighborhood safety and socioeconomic status increased the magnitude of these negative perceptions. We conclude by discussing possible explanations as to why American Indian youth hold negative perceptions of police and directions for future research.

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Section: Key Findings and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Attitudes and Marginalization: Examining American Indian Perceptions of Law Enforcement Among Adolescents

Redner-Vera

Galeste

2015

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

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“…The modern neoliberal State tolerates and ignores the criminal transgressions of the rich and powerful, while over-policing the less-productive portions of the population. The militarisation of the police is juxtaposed with the systematic racism evident in the mass policing and incarceration of minority populations, especially African-American and Hispanic communities (Rios 2006). 9 Corporate profits are prioritised over and above the everyday welfare of the citizenry; capitalism is here coupled with biopower, confirming a multifaceted and enmeshed malevolence.…”

Section: Post-foucauldians In a Neoliberal Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age

Johnson¹

2014

Theoria

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In Discipline and Punish the police is a state institution isomorphic with the prison. In his Collège de France lectures, Foucault unearths a 'secret history of the police' where greater attention is paid to public health, social welfare and regulating the marketplace than investigating and arresting criminals. This broad overview of Foucault's writings on the police exhibits a 'splintering-effect' in his modalities of power. To resolve this apparent contradiction, a nominalist reading that conflates Foucault's divergent paradigms of power results in a more multifaceted history and a ubiquitous mode of power with diverse and precise techniques. There are strengths and weaknesses in Foucault's theory when applied to modern neoliberal police. Foucault should not be employed for one-dimensional criticisms of modern police or as an analytical cure-all.

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“…In a study on the criminalization of youth in Oakland, Victor Rios found that poor youth of color “face stigmatizing and punitive interactions” with various people in their community, including family members, school staff, and police (Rios 2006, 2011). Our interviewees also consistently expressed that the police harassed them (Ossei-Owusu & Lindahl, 2010).…”

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Dissolving borders: Reframing risk, delinquent peers, and youth violence

Lustig¹,

Sung²

2013

Children and Youth Services Review

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Although “association with delinquent peers” is commonly identified as “a risk factor for youth violence,” this framework leads us to blame individuals and ignore the complex lives of youth who face state, symbolic, and interpersonal violence. This study is based on interviews with young adults about their adolescence in a low-income immigrant gateway neighborhood of Oakland, California. Most of the interviewees have peer networks that are racially/ethnically diverse and also include both delinquent and conforming peers. We show that having these “doubly diverse” friendship networks helps youth move through their neighborhood safely and feel anchored to their community even when they leave to attend college. Even successful youth in our study do not erect borders between themselves and “delinquent peers.” It is easy to assign blame to youth for their friendships, their violent behavior, their lack of education, their unstable and low-paying jobs, but this calculus ignores both the structural factors that constrain youth choices and the benefits that seem to be linked to diverse friendships, even with delinquent peers. Growing up in a site of global capital accumulation and disinvestment in the era of neoliberalism, our interviewees challenge us to reframe risk.

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The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration

Cited by 85 publications

References 8 publications

Attitudes and Marginalization: Examining American Indian Perceptions of Law Enforcement Among Adolescents

Attitudes and Marginalization: Examining American Indian Perceptions of Law Enforcement Among Adolescents

Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age

Dissolving borders: Reframing risk, delinquent peers, and youth violence

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