{"product_id":"2940170517398","title":"Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth","description":"At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target-flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life-putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. Now, Rios is a rising star, hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHuman Targets\u003c\/i\u003e, Rios takes us to the streets of California, where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as fifteen-year-old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools, homes, community organizations, and detention facilities, watch them interact with police, grow up to become fathers, get jobs, get rap sheets-and in some cases get killed. What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who don't? Rios makes a powerful case that the traditional good kid\/bad kid, street kid\/decent kid dichotomy is much too simplistic, arguing instead that authorities and institutions help create these identities-and that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098474594544,"sku":"2940170517398","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170517398_p0.jpg?v=1763711284","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170517398","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}