ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 is based on ethnographic field research, participant observation, and in-depth personal interviews with barrio youth in Barrio Pico, a working-class neighborhood in San Diego County. The author grew up in the neighborhood and insightfully describes the prevailing “dual system of justice,” where low-income urban Chicanas and Chicanos are targeted and receive harsh punishment for things that are considered innocuous outside of stigmatized neighborhoods and the criminalized status of gang membership. In addition to formal controls, he insightfully illustrates the effects of panoptic surveillance on the Chicana and Chicano youngsters in the barrio.
