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Victor Rios Chapter Summary

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1) What is the object of the study? . The main purpose of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of how punishment, surveillance, and criminal justice practices affected the lives of the participants and what patterns of punishment the participants encountered in their neighborhoods; what affects patterns of punishment had on their daily lives; and how punitive encounters with police, probation officers, teachers and administrators, and other authority figures shaped the meanings that the boys created about themselves and about their obstacles, opportunities and future aspirations. 2)What is the main thesis of the book? This is an interesting and time worthy book for readers in gaining a multifaceted understanding of the lives of policed …show more content…

So he actually could speaks to his insider status in the community and also with the data he collected, Victor Rios has documented the wideness of the community and its effects on the Black and Latino boys. He illustrates how each aspect of the youth control complex on its own might not produce the same results as all of them working together. “While being called a ‘thug’ by a random adult may seem trivial to some people, when a young person is call a ‘thug’ be a random adult, told by a teach that he or she will never amount to anything, and frisked by a police officer, all in the same day, this combination becomes greater than the sum of its parts” (Punished Policing of black lives, 40). Lower-class, young, non-white men today come of age in an era of mass incarceration. The labeling of poor young, non-white boys is not seamlessly producing their participation in criminal behavior, but it plays a critical role in diminishing opportunities for social mobility. The young men in Rios’ study internalized these messages, believing they were “inherently criminal” (Punished Policing of black lives, 52). And, as Rios illustrates, it’s a difficult message not to internalize, difficult at least in part because it comes from so many different directions. It’s not that adults are colluding to ruin these boys lives. Yet, Rios illustrates how well-intentioned adults throughout their lives help to criminalize this population, such that “their subjectivities are partially constructed by punishment” Punished Policing of black lives,

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Hubner’s intentions with this study and Last Chance in Texas is to allow others that read the book to recognize the meaning behind a juvenile’s criminal actions. This could be a guide book for a potential probation officer to understand unique ways for them to treat their offender with the motive to not focus on punishment. The potential probation officer and use the ideas of the criminal finding a way to put himself in the victim’s shoes and understand how being a criminal harms more than just the person that was intended to be hurt. The audience of this book varies. The book was poorly written without as much detail, so the stories written down could not have a false accusation that the stories documented from the students in this book

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Victor Rios begins chapter six by describing the way the Latino boys he studied used masculinity as a rehabilitative tool. He describes how the boys are constantly “questioning” each other’s manhood as a way of proving their own masculinity. “The boys’ social relations with one another and with community members were saturated with expressions and discourses of manhood” (pg.125). Rios continues to describe the affects criminalization and its gendered practices has influenced these young boy’s mentality of what it means to be masculine. In chapter six, the author explains that although the boys had easy access to weapons, they rarely used them because of their clear understanding the consequences associated with such violence.

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Chapter one of the book opens with an in-depth explanation of the methods and the inspiration behind the study. Rios goes into great detail of how he recruited the boys for the study and proves additional information about their history with the criminal justice system. However, most the chapter focuses on the patterns of punishment that are observed in Oakland that the boys experienced on a routine basis. The chapter covers the police brutality and negativity on the streets that leads to continuous victimization.

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The boys sought for this experiment were already delinquent, and as noted this was a case study, these were unique individuals and as such the findings cannot be generalized to the larger population of the United States, California or even Oakland. Another fact that must be noted is that the author utilized snowball sampling, the author went to community organizations and asked to be connected to ‘at risk’ kids, and when he established communication with some of the young men, he asked them to refer him to other youths in similar situations. The author also makes note of the fact that his own experiences as a child may have had a bias on his

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Urban ethnography, a systematic method used to examine culture developing in everyday life, let Rios discern the difficult aspects, unfortunate circumstances, and social relations of the young men’s lives. Victor Rios observed, shadowed, and interviewed delinquent inner-city youth males to answer his question of the effect of the punishment on the boys. As Rio studied the life of these males he discovered a youth control complex where punishment was present in everyday social life, and the behavior of these marginalized young men were criminalized, pointing them to incarceration, disgrace, and exclusion. Racialization, harassment, punishment, surveillance, and detention by all adult figures were all pieces of the pattern of the social order in Oakland that shaped the way the young men created worldviews about themselves and the deeply rooted social stances in their community. Rios found social incapacitation present upon these marginalized males.

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