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- Education, Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Social Justice, Cross-Cultural Studies, and 25 moreInstitutional Theory, Immigration Studies, Institutional Change, Violence Prevention, Urban Education, Critical Theory/Pedagogy, Critical Literacies, Youth Culture, Hip Hop Culture, Curriculum & Development, Immigrant children, Adolescent, Delinquency, Adolescent Incarceration, Delinquency and Gangs, Ab 540, Urban Sociology, Urban Studies, Cultural Sociology, Ethnography, Civic Groups, Cultural Associations, Group Styles, Urban Events, Social cohesion, Forms of Sociality, Criminology, Informal Economy, Gangs, Race/Class/Gender, Tattooing, and Chicana/o Sociologyedit
- I am currently lecturing at UC- Santa Barbara for the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, where I also received my doctoral degree in 2017. I was born in Los Angeles and was raised in San Bernardino, Ca. I transferred to UC- Santa Barb... moreI am currently lecturing at UC- Santa Barbara for the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, where I also received my doctoral degree in 2017. I was born in Los Angeles and was raised in San Bernardino, Ca. I transferred to UC- Santa Barbara, along with my wife, from Riverside Community College in the fall of 2006. Two years later I was the first person in my family to be enrolled in a Ph. D. program. Check out my website for more information:
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Author(s): Galicia, Jr., Mario Gerardo | Advisor(s): Duran, Richard P.; Rios, Victor M. | Abstract: In the spring of 2007 in Golden Coast, California there were a few incidents involving underage Latinos that led local law enforcement and... more
Author(s): Galicia, Jr., Mario Gerardo | Advisor(s): Duran, Richard P.; Rios, Victor M. | Abstract: In the spring of 2007 in Golden Coast, California there were a few incidents involving underage Latinos that led local law enforcement and media outlets to describe the series of events as a sign of increased local criminal gang activity despite reports to the contrary. Some of these reports came from senior law enforcement officials whom were quoted in local media as describing a decrease in criminal activity. Shortly thereafter, the local school district implemented a committee tasked with formulating the guidelines for an intervention program aimed at curbing youth from continued criminal and/or gang activity. This research is a longitudinal ethnographic study, spanning over 5 years; focused on a group of 8 youth participants’ from the intervention program. Participants experiences and perspectives on gangs, policing, schooling, and the gang intervention worker were examined. This ...
