{"product_id":"human-targets-schools-police-and-the-criminalization-of-latino-youth-paperback","title":"Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor M. Rios\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target-flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life-putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. Now, Rios is a rising star, hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHuman Targets\u003c\/i\u003e, Rios takes us to the streets of California, where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as fifteen-year-old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools, homes, community organizations, and detention facilities, watch them interact with police, grow up to become fathers, get jobs, get rap sheets-and in some cases get killed. What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who don't? Rios makes a powerful case that the traditional good kid\/bad kid, street kid\/decent kid dichotomy is much too simplistic, arguing instead that authorities and institutions help create these identities-and that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles. In Rios's account, to be a poor Latino youth is to be a human target-victimized and considered an enemy by others, viewed as a threat to law enforcement and schools, and burdened by stigma, disrepute, and punishment. That has to change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is not another sensationalistic account of gang bangers. Instead, the book is a powerful look at how authority figures succeed-and fail-at seeing the multi-faceted identities of at-risk youths, youths who succeed-and fail-at demonstrating to the system that they are ready to change their lives. In our post-Ferguson era, \u003ci\u003eHuman Targets\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictor M. Rios\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePunished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStreet Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403669139761,"sku":"9780226090993","price":48.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/VXJsengxOUNibG5vbHNLdUxVSk1PUT09.webp?v=1768922064","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/human-targets-schools-police-and-the-criminalization-of-latino-youth-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}