Latina/o/x Criminology Panel 3: Criminalization Across Borders, Bodies, and Communities

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The goal of Latina/o/x Criminology is to exchange, promote, and disseminate knowledge that contributes to criminological expertise and understanding of the rapidly growing U.S. Latina/o/x population. This panel features work from leading and rising scholars in Latina/o/x Criminology. Presentations will explore diverse topics, including how criminal gang labels persist despite declining gang activity, the health and displacement impacts of gentrification and criminalization, the gender dimensions of hyper-criminalization, and the ways in which the criminalization of immigration is fundamentally rooted in the racialized criminalization of Mexicans.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Correlates of Crime / 28. Race and Ethnicity

Individual Presentations

• Marginalization on the West Side of Salt Lake - Daniel Morante, University of Utah; Lessly Paulino, University of Utah; Hector Huarte, University of Utah; Katherine Maldonado Fabela, University of Utah

• Between Safety and Stigma: A Mixed Methods Study of Perceptions and Policing in a Latina/o Community - Jason Azriel Campos, Texas A&M University

• The Hyper-Criminalization of Latinx Folks - Luz Acosta, University of Illinois Chicago

• The Social Construction of ‘Bad Hombres’ and ‘Degenerates’: The Intersection of Criminalization and Racialization of Mexicans in the United States - Daniel E. Martínez, University of Arizona; Amanda Pierson, University of Arizona; Ricardo Martínez-Schuldt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Chair

• Daniel E. Martínez, University of Arizona

Organized by a Division or external group?

Latina/o/x Criminology