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Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and '90s. A past gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios were able to get away from the bleak final result of many of his friends and acquired a PhD at Berkeley and went back to his hometown to review how inner-city young Latino and DARK-COLORED males develop their sense of do it yourself amid crime and intense policing. Punished examines the difficult lives of these teenagers, who now face punitive plans in their institutions, communities, and a global where they are really constantly policed and stigmatized. Rios followed a group of 40 delinquent black and Latino males for 3 years. These males found themselves in a vicious pattern, captured in a spiral of punishment and incarceration as these were harassed, profiled, watched, and disciplined at young age groups, even before that they had committed any offences, eventually leading many of them to fulfill the destiny expected of these. But beyond a fatalistic consideration of these marginalized teenagers, Rios detects that the very system that criminalizes them and limits their opportunities sparks level of resistance and an elevated consciousness that motivates some to enhance their lives and become productive citizens.