Criminal Justice Pipeline On Black And Latino Masculinity Summary

In the reading “The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity by. Victor M. Rios an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a former gang member and juvenile ward. In the text it was mentioned that people become who they are based on how they are expected to be in society based on their gender. Such as being a male and being tuff, emotionless etc. The author argues that individuals shape themselves and the way they act depending on how society expects them to act depending on their gender. Such as to be considered a “real men” they have to go through things in society, family based and much more to prove it. Males are more likely to be delinquents than females due to the way they are expected to be rough, tough and violence.

The article also informed us that a 16-year-old named Junior was followed by police whenever he went to school they followed him through the whole route he took. Junior was only seen as a criminal and not as a normal person because of a little error he committed in the past as if it was hunting him. The author argues that officers want to teach young men lessons by calling them names that make them feel not masculine and they do it in front of female peers to basically embarrass them and motivate them to fight and be tough “be a man”. Police take advantage of having a gun with them and jails when it comes to going after someone which makes the ones in trouble look like “little bitches” since they don’t have the same weapons available to them to defend themselves and even if they did they get in trouble. Police take any little thing against a