Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity

Patrick Lopez-Aguado

ISBN 10: 0520288580 / ISBN 13: 9780520288584

Published by University of California Press, 2018

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Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity by Patrick Lopez-Aguado. University of California Press, 2018. 240pp. Language: English. Note:

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520288580
• ISBN 13: 9780520288584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None

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Synopsis

In Stick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional authorities structure a “carceral social order” that racially and geographically divides criminalized populations into gang-associated affiliations. These affiliations come to shape one’s exposure to both violence and criminal labeling, and as they spill over the institutional walls they establish how these unfold in high-incarceration neighborhoods as well, revealing the insidious set of consequences that mass incarceration holds for poor communities of color.

About the Author

Patrick Lopez-Aguado is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University.