Why Do People Commit Crime

Imagine being harassed, racially profiled and just simply always looked at as a criminal even though you are not; now imagine all of that but at the tender age of eleven. Minorities, especially blacks and latino who are young often get criminalized by police officers and the general public. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys was written by Victor M.Rios. Mr. Rios was a part of a gang when he was younger, which led him to become a juvenile delinquent, but through all of the adversity, having to deal with police brutality and criminalization, Mr. Rios got a doctorate in sociology at Berkeley. Since Rios grew up with gangs and criminal surroundings he wanted to express the amount of youth that were being criminalized. He performed a three year study which included forty African American and Latino young adults from Oakland. …show more content…
With the research that Rios conducted he saw that a lot of minorities and poor people are treated as criminals even though they are not. As a human being if you are being treated differently you would get a sense of being an outcast, shamed, defeated, or hopeless, this is what i believe is the reason why the youth commit or continue to commit crimes. If someone treats another person as a criminal even though they are not, eventually that person would turn into a criminal or at least have criminal thoughts. Moreover, if a youth come from a family that is considered a working class, or poor, that youth would have lack of support, educationally and emotionally. This may cause for incarceration. In the study conducted by