Robert J Durán
Biographic Data
| ID | 91056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Durán |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Durán |
| SIGNATURE | DURÁN R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1130-9164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death
The racialized patterns of police violence
The tragic killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police resulted in hundreds of thousands of protestors marching in the streets demanding change. The call for change criticized the killing of Blacks by law enforcement and challenged White supremacy as an institution of social control and racial violence. A key component of the marches and protests was a message to the residents of the United States: “Black Lives Matter.” As society grapples…
Gangs, gangsters, and the impact of settler colonialism on the Latina/o experience
As the largest minority group in the United States, Latinas/os have experienced a long history of discrimination, prejudice, and stigmatization as gang members. A contemporary survey of law enforcement agencies reported that Latinos continue to be the largest proportion of any racial or ethnic group involved in gangs. To describe such a pattern, the framework of settler colonialism will be utilized to describe differential experiences based on ra…
The Gang Paradox
Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe
Latinos and the Police
Research Article| September 01 2018 Latinos and the Police: A Critical Analysis of Officer-Involved Shootings Robert J. Durán Robert J. Durán Robert J. Durán has a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado and is associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. A former gang member, he later served as a juvenile probation officer before becoming a scholar activist focusing on gangs and police use of deadly force. He has published …
The Policing of Youth on the U.S.–Mexico Border
The study of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) has encountered at least three obstacles: the lack of research on policing, the difficulty of expanding research beyond Blacks and Whites, and the absence of research focused on different regions of the country. The authors of this article seek to fill these three gaps by exploring the reasons why Hispanic juveniles have a greater number of arrests for delinquent and nondelinquent behavior than…
Gang Paradox
Economics and Youth Violence
No Justice, No Peace
This article provides a thematic overview of a subset of controversial officer involved shootings that have occurred in Denver, Colorado during a period of thirty years (1983-2012). Determining whether a shooting was legally justified involved multiple participants, including local, national, and international representatives. The primary stakeholders were City and County District Attorneys regarding whether to file criminal charges against the o…
Falling Back
Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Land of Enchantment
This article provides an overview of disproportionate minority contact in the state of New Mexico by focusing on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's identification phase. Statewide Relative Rate Index data of 9 decision points in the juvenile justice system were used to explore patterns of disparity for 7 years (2002–2008). New Mexico is 1 of 4 states considered to have a proportion of racial and ethnic minorities that sur…
No boundaries
Gang organization
The Core Ideals of the Mexican American Gang
Current approaches to designing antigang policies overemphasize the notion that criminality is the defining characteristic of gangs and that solutions require a get-tough approach. As an ex-gang member, I conducted a five-year ethnographic study and a fourteen-year informal study of Mexican American street gangs in two Southwestern states to understand the persistence of gangs. I found that the obstacles that have been imposed on low-income, ethn…
Legitimated Oppression
This article explores the gang suppression model and how it becomes practiced in the profiling and interactions between police and inner-city Mexican Americans. I conducted this research formally over five years in two southwestern cities-Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah-and informally for fourteen years by the researcher's experience as an ex-gang member. I suggest that stereotyping Mexican American communities as gang "infested" and equating g…
Legitimated Oppression
This article explores the gang suppression model and how it becomes practiced in the profiling and interactions between police and inner-city Mexican Americans. I conducted this research formally over five years in two southwestern cities-Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah-and informally for fourteen years by the researcher's experience as an ex-gang member. I suggest that stereotyping Mexican American communities as gang "infested" and equating g…
No Justice, No Peace
This article provides a thematic overview of a subset of controversial officer involved shootings that have occurred in Denver, Colorado during a period of thirty years (1983-2012). Determining whether a shooting was legally justified involved multiple participants, including local, national, and international representatives. The primary stakeholders were City and County District Attorneys regarding whether to file criminal charges against the o…
Gangs, gangsters, and the impact of settler colonialism on the Latina/o experience
As the largest minority group in the United States, Latinas/os have experienced a long history of discrimination, prejudice, and stigmatization as gang members. A contemporary survey of law enforcement agencies reported that Latinos continue to be the largest proportion of any racial or ethnic group involved in gangs. To describe such a pattern, the framework of settler colonialism will be utilized to describe differential experiences based on ra…
Gang organization
The Core Ideals of the Mexican American Gang
Current approaches to designing antigang policies overemphasize the notion that criminality is the defining characteristic of gangs and that solutions require a get-tough approach. As an ex-gang member, I conducted a five-year ethnographic study and a fourteen-year informal study of Mexican American street gangs in two Southwestern states to understand the persistence of gangs. I found that the obstacles that have been imposed on low-income, ethn…
The racialized patterns of police violence
The tragic killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police resulted in hundreds of thousands of protestors marching in the streets demanding change. The call for change criticized the killing of Blacks by law enforcement and challenged White supremacy as an institution of social control and racial violence. A key component of the marches and protests was a message to the residents of the United States: “Black Lives Matter.” As society grapples…
Economics and Youth Violence
No boundaries
The Core Ideals of the Mexican American Gang
Current approaches to designing antigang policies overemphasize the notion that criminality is the defining characteristic of gangs and that solutions require a get-tough approach. As an ex-gang member, I conducted a five-year ethnographic study and a fourteen-year informal study of Mexican American street gangs in two Southwestern states to understand the persistence of gangs. I found that the obstacles that have been imposed on low-income, ethn…
Legitimated Oppression
This article explores the gang suppression model and how it becomes practiced in the profiling and interactions between police and inner-city Mexican Americans. I conducted this research formally over five years in two southwestern cities-Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah-and informally for fourteen years by the researcher's experience as an ex-gang member. I suggest that stereotyping Mexican American communities as gang "infested" and equating g…
Gang organization
No boundaries
Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Land of Enchantment
This article provides an overview of disproportionate minority contact in the state of New Mexico by focusing on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's identification phase. Statewide Relative Rate Index data of 9 decision points in the juvenile justice system were used to explore patterns of disparity for 7 years (2002–2008). New Mexico is 1 of 4 states considered to have a proportion of racial and ethnic minorities that sur…
Falling Back
The Policing of Youth on the U.S.–Mexico Border
The study of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) has encountered at least three obstacles: the lack of research on policing, the difficulty of expanding research beyond Blacks and Whites, and the absence of research focused on different regions of the country. The authors of this article seek to fill these three gaps by exploring the reasons why Hispanic juveniles have a greater number of arrests for delinquent and nondelinquent behavior than…
Gang Paradox
Economics and Youth Violence
No Justice, No Peace
This article provides a thematic overview of a subset of controversial officer involved shootings that have occurred in Denver, Colorado during a period of thirty years (1983-2012). Determining whether a shooting was legally justified involved multiple participants, including local, national, and international representatives. The primary stakeholders were City and County District Attorneys regarding whether to file criminal charges against the o…
The Gang Paradox
Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe
Latinos and the Police
Research Article| September 01 2018 Latinos and the Police: A Critical Analysis of Officer-Involved Shootings Robert J. Durán Robert J. Durán Robert J. Durán has a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado and is associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. A former gang member, he later served as a juvenile probation officer before becoming a scholar activist focusing on gangs and police use of deadly force. He has published …
Gangs, gangsters, and the impact of settler colonialism on the Latina/o experience
As the largest minority group in the United States, Latinas/os have experienced a long history of discrimination, prejudice, and stigmatization as gang members. A contemporary survey of law enforcement agencies reported that Latinos continue to be the largest proportion of any racial or ethnic group involved in gangs. To describe such a pattern, the framework of settler colonialism will be utilized to describe differential experiences based on ra…
The racialized patterns of police violence
The tragic killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police resulted in hundreds of thousands of protestors marching in the streets demanding change. The call for change criticized the killing of Blacks by law enforcement and challenged White supremacy as an institution of social control and racial violence. A key component of the marches and protests was a message to the residents of the United States: “Black Lives Matter.” As society grapples…
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death
Criminology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Law enforcement (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)