The cover of Leonard Leslie Brookeâs Ring Oâ Roses shows nursery rhyme characters performing âRing Around the Rosie.â The book was first published in 1922 and the image is therefore in the public domain.
In a new book, Victor Rios describes how rogue cops and harried school officials push some young blacks and Latinos into deeper trouble. In a new book, Victor Rios describes how rogue cops and harried school officials push some young blacks and Latinos into deeper trouble.
Rios, now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, was no angel when that happened. He had just been pulled over in a car he had stolen. He had joined a gang at 13, lured by the promise of protection in Oakland's drug-riddled, gang-controlled neighborhoods.