Victor M. Rios is a professor, author, and speaker.[1] His research examines how inequality plays a determining role in the educational and life outcomes of marginalized populations.[2] Rios is of Mexican American origin.[3] He has written several books and is known for developing the theories of the youth control complex,[4] Cultural Misframing,[5] Legitimacy Policing,[6] Masbloom,[7] and Educator Projected Self-Actualization.[8]
^Rios, Victor M. (2011). Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York University Press. p. 178. I would like to note that I am a dark-skinned Chicano.
^Rios, Victor M. (2007). "The Hypercriminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration". In Steinberg, I.; Middlemass, K.; Marable, M. (eds.). Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 17–21. ISBN9780230607347.