Curriculum Vita

Teaching Areas and Research Interests
Urban Ethnography; Juvenile Justice; Latina/o Sociology; Masculinity; Youth

Key Publications
The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline on Black and Latino Masculinity. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2009).

The Racial Politics of Youth Crime. Latino Studies (2008).

The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society (2006).

“From Knucklehead to Revolutionary": Urban Youth Culture and Social Transformation. Journal of Urban Youth Culture (2005). http://juyc.org/pdf/riosvictor.pdf

Forthcoming with NYU Press:

Punished: The Criminalization of Inner City Boys

Contact Information
Office: 2813 Ellison
Email: vrios@soc.ucsb.edu

Assistant Professor

Academic Credentials

Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2005