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The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity

Victor M. Rios

University of California, Santa Barbara

Analyses of the criminal justice system have revealed the racialized nature of crime and punishment in the United States. We know little, however, about how race, crime, and punishment are also experienced as gendered phenomena by marginalized adolescent males. Drawing from ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, the author proposes that important insights about crime, race, and gender are gained by analyzing the experiences of adolescent males as they navigate through the criminal justice pipeline. Thus, the author examines how policing, incarceration, and probation offer masculinity-making resources that young men use to develop a sense of manhood. This study shows that one of the consequences of enhanced policing, surveillance, and punitive treatment of youth of color is the development of a specific set of gendered practices. One outcome of pervasive criminal justice contact for young black and Latino men is the production of a hypermasculinity that obstructs desistance and social mobility.

Key Words: hypermasculinity • masculinity • violence • juvenile justice • criminalization • crime • race • gender

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 623, No. 1, 150-162 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716208330489
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