Victor Rios

Victor Rios is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His 2011 book, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (NYU Press), analyzes how juvenile crime policies and criminalization affect the everyday lives of urban youth.  He has published on juvenile justice, masculinity, and race and crime in scholarly journals such as The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Latino Studies, and Critical Criminology.  He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2005.