@article{ref1,
title="Legitimated Oppression",
journal="Journal of contemporary ethnography",
year="2009",
author="Durán, R. J.",
volume="38",
number="2",
pages="143-168",
abstract="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 &quot;infested&quot; and equating gangs as synonymous with crime allows for differential policing that no longer emphasizes criminal acts, but rather perpetual criminal people. Gang enforcement is over-inclusive and embedded with practices that create opportunities for abuse of authority.<p />",
language="",
issn="0891-2416",
doi="10.1177/0891241607313057",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241607313057"
}