Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity

Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
ISBN-10
0520963458
ISBN-13
9780520963450
Category
Social Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2018-01-19
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Patrick Lopez-Aguado

Description

In Stick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional authorities structure a “carceral social order” that racially and geographically divides criminalized populations into gang-associated affiliations. These affiliations come to shape one’s exposure to both violence and criminal labeling, and as they spill over the institutional walls they establish how these unfold in high-incarceration neighborhoods as well, revealing the insidious set of consequences that mass incarceration holds for poor communities of color.

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