Book Talk | Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys

Friday, April 3, 2015
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003, USA

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The Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join us for a conversation with Victor Rios and Carla Shedd about Rios’ work as reported in his award-winning book Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys.

Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (NYU Press 2011) analyzes how juvenile crime policies and criminalization affect the everyday lives of urban male youth. This analysis is founded on the results of 10 years of ethnographic research in Northern and Southern California with “juvenile delinquent” and gang associated boys. This research tracked the social consequences of the punitive state across institutional settings and examined young people’s resilience and responses to social marginalization. Rios will discuss his findings, as well as those of his latest research project on current social movements in Ferguson, Missouri, to examine the role of social control in determining the well-being of young people living in urban marginality.

Victor Rios is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A native of Oakland, California, and former juvenile delinquent and high school drop-out, Professor Rios channels his experiences into compelling sociological analysis. He received his PhD in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley in 2005. His forthcoming book Missing Fire: Gangs Across Institutional Settings (University of Chicago Press) examines the quality of interactions between gang associated youths and authority figures across institutional settings.

Carla Shedd is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Columbia University.  Shedd received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and her A.B. in Economics and African American Studies from Smith College.  Her research and teaching interests focus on: crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society; social inequality; and urban sociology.