Problem
Browse books and films by Victor M. Rios
1) Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and PhD
2) Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Male Youth
3) Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
4) The Pushout
Answer each of the following short-answer questions:
1) What is hypercriminalization?
2) How are Black and Latino male youth hypercriminalized, according to Rios?
3) What policies or practices support the hypercriminalization of Black and Latino male youth?
4) What popular myths, misconceptions, or lines of thinking support the hypercriminalization of Black and Latino male youth?
5) What are the far-reaching effects of the hypercriminalization of Black and Latino male youth--on the youth, their families, their communities, the broader community, and the nation at large?
6) What evidence brings Rios to make this argument? What illustrative example do you find powerful? Put somewhat differently, how does Rios know (body of evidence) what he knows, and how does he show (specific example from that body of evidence) what he knows?