In the book, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Rios argues about the problems that have continued to plague the urban America. These include the problems minority children who grow up in poverty, join the gangs, break laws and end up in prison. Basing his book on a three year study of minority youths who have been in juvenile facilities, watched their friends and family go through the same, Rio seeks to gain a comprehensive insight into the lives of these youth. Through this study Rios finds that the root of this problem is that institutions in society tasked with the responsibility of getting young people from a life of crime and into productivity use the same methods for which they should curtail in the youths for instance
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The aim of this study was to understand some of the structural arrangement of society that could be contributing to the problem. Ethnography on the other hand is a method that is very informative where there is the perception that social life is the product of the interaction between structures, institutions and agencies and everyday life of people. This preoccupation with the relationship between structures and how they shape human behavior becomes the meeting point of the two. Ethnographic studies are important because they examine social life as it unfolds, making it possible to quantify human feelings, in the context of communities (O’Reilly, 2012; 1). The result is that it becomes possible to observe human behavior in its natural context and thus generates more accurate …show more content…
This he says is deeply rooted in the civil rights movement (Rios, 2011; 29). The black people settled in Oakland from the south during World War II. Having a huge presence of the black people, Oakland became highly involved in the civil rights movements across America where black people demanded for their rights. The black people were for instance protesting the lack of employment, segregation and general lack of economic opportunities. The Latino population came later in the 1990s and settled in the poor neighborhoods of the blacks. Within no time the two groups interacted and meshed up thus experiencing similar experiences of punitive interaction in the institutions of the society more so the criminal justice
The aim of this study was to understand some of the structural arrangement of society that could be contributing to the problem. Ethnography on the other hand is a method that is very informative where there is the perception that social life is the product of the interaction between structures, institutions and agencies and everyday life of people. This preoccupation with the relationship between structures and how they shape human behavior becomes the meeting point of the two. Ethnographic studies are important because they examine social life as it unfolds, making it possible to quantify human feelings, in the context of communities (O’Reilly, 2012; 1). The result is that it becomes possible to observe human behavior in its natural context and thus generates more accurate …show more content…
This he says is deeply rooted in the civil rights movement (Rios, 2011; 29). The black people settled in Oakland from the south during World War II. Having a huge presence of the black people, Oakland became highly involved in the civil rights movements across America where black people demanded for their rights. The black people were for instance protesting the lack of employment, segregation and general lack of economic opportunities. The Latino population came later in the 1990s and settled in the poor neighborhoods of the blacks. Within no time the two groups interacted and meshed up thus experiencing similar experiences of punitive interaction in the institutions of the society more so the criminal justice