In this paper, I employ
analyses of the collateral consequences of mass incarceration to consider how
high-incarceration communities are impacted by socializing processes instilled
in the prison. Collateral consequences researchers have found that
neighborhoods with high rates of incarceration suffer cumulative disadvantage,
intensified policing, and the criminalization of residents. But overlooked in
this literature is how socializing processes that are institutionalized in the
prison shape the criminalization of community residents as gang-involved.
For
example, I argue that the fallout of sorting imprisoned Latinos into gang-associated
groups has been the emergence of prison-based Norteña/o, Sureña/o, and Bulldog
identities in criminalized Chicana/o neighborhoods, complicating the
implications mass incarceration has for marginalized communities of color. The
geographic concentration of both mass incarceration and its collateral
consequences not only directs aggressive policing into these residential spaces
but also structures a relationship between prison and neighborhood that
reinforces the recognition of community members as criminal.
The appearance of
Norteña/o, Sureña/o, and Bulldog identities in Latina/o neighborhoods
represents some of the unanticipated consequences mass incarceration has for
high-incarceration communities, both in terms of the exportation of prison culture
to the street and in terms of the extension of the prison's ability to define
and construct criminality.
Full article at: http://goo.gl/pn6sqh
By: Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Correspondence address: Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA. E-mail: plopezaguado@scu.edu
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