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WORK TITLE: Latino Access to Higher Education
WORK NOTES: with Claudia Rodriguez Wright
PSEUDONYM(S):
BIRTHDATE: 2/25/1972
WEBSITE:
CITY: Laredo
STATE: TX
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NATIONALITY:
Mexican American * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Guevara_Urbina * https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-guevara-urbina-20a63580/
RESEARCHER NOTES:
PERSONAL
Born February 25, 1972, in Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico; son of Felipa Guevara and Salvador Urbina.
EDUCATION:Attended Western Texas College; Sul Ross State University, B.S., 1995; New Mexico State University, M.C.J., 1997; Western Michigan University, Ph.D., 2000.
ADDRESS
CAREER
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, assistant professor of criminal justice, 2000-05, associate professor, 2005-06; Howard College, Big Spring, TX, professor of sociology, 2006-08; Sul Ross State University/Rio Grande College, Alpine, TX, associate professor of criminal justice, 2009-13, professor of criminal justice, 2013-.
AVOCATIONS:Evening walks.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Martin Guevara Urbina is a professor of criminal justice at Sul Ross State University/Rio Grande College, in Alpine, Texas. He was born in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, but moved to Texas while he was in first grade. He stayed in Texas most of his early life, attending college there until entering New Mexico State University to earn his master’s degree. In 2000, Urbina graduated from Western Michigan University with a Ph.D. in sociology.
Urbina is the author of a number of books dealing with social issues in the United States as well as books on Hispanics in U.S. culture. His books include Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences; A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration; Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty over Time; Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography; Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans: From Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization; Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America; Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues; Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realities and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century; and Ethnicity and Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Critical Reader on the Latino Experience.
A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders and Capital Punishment in America
In A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders, Urbina looks at the differences in the criminal justice system between men and women and how women are treated in prison as opposed to men. In his study, based on data from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, he finds that men are subjected to a more consistent approach, while females must deal with more change and less consistency. In Corrections Compendium, Scott Hudson wasn’t overly impressed by Urbina’s effort, calling it “problematic.” He wrote: “Urbina uses shock value in an attempt to empirically validate his hypothesis about who is responsible for individual behavior. This work is not likely to appeal to the average correctional employee as it lacks emphasis on personal responsibility.”
In Capital Punishment in America, Urbina tries to show that most studies of the racial divide in the criminal justice system in America focuses on African Americans and Caucasians, with much less attention put on Latino prisoners. Using data obtained from California, Texas, and Florida showing death sentence outcomes between 1975 and 1995, he shows just how many Latinos were executed during that time and how their executions related to political, social, and legal factors. R.D. McCrie in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries “recommended” the book, saying: “Urbina provides extensive statistical, referential, and descriptive evidence to buttress his thesis.”
Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System and Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans
Continuing on the theme begun in Capital Punishment in America, Urbina once again focuses on the Latin prison population in Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System. Calling upon experts in the fields of sociology, criminal justice, and public administration Urbina presents seventeen studies on Hispanics in the U.S police, judicial, and penal systems. The studies highlight the historical aspects as well as current trends in the repression of Latin Americans—mostly Mexicans—and how they are treated in the criminal justice system, including issues faced by Latino prisoners, unlawful searches and seizures, keeping Latinos off juries, and other issues of racial discrimination.
In Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans, Urbina looks at how white supremacy is imbedded in American laws and how, in the author’s words, “the Mexican American experience has been neglected, minimized, or excluded from the pages of history.” Using literature from many different academic fields, Urbina provides examples of the problems, struggles, and battles Mexican Americans face in white society.
Latino Police Officers in the United States and Latino Access to Higher Education
In Latino Police Officers in the United States, Urbina studies the current state of Latinos in law enforcement and how they are the minority in police departments around the country. He brings to the forefront the need for more Latino officers and how the need exists in this multicultural society. “Exceptionally well written, organized and presented … Latino Police Officers in the United States … fills a critical gap in law enforcement literature and is an impressively informed and informative contribution to today’s on-going national dialogue about the role and responsibility of police, especially with respect to communities of ethnicity and color.”
In Latino Access to Higher Education, Urbina brings to light that Latinos are now the largest minority group in America. He goes into detail about their historical experience in higher education and how things have changed for them in more recent years, citing the fact that racial barriers still exist for the Latino population. Choice reviewer J.S. Hodes “highly recommended” the book and wrote: “The call for accountability in institutions of higher education is timely.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, December, 2012, R.D. McCrie, review of Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty over Time, p. 767; December, 2014, L.H. Moreno, review of Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans: From Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization, p. 688; June, 2016, J.S. Hodes, review of Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realities and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, p. 1522.
Corrections Compendium, spring, 2009, Scott Hudson, review of A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration, p. 40.
Reference & Research Book News, February, 2009, review of A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders; October, 2012, review of Capital Punishment in America; December, 2012, review of Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography.
Reviewer’s Bookwatch, July, 2015, Carl Logan, review of Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues.
Martin Guevara Urbina
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Guevara Urbina
Born San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Nationality United States
Fields Sociology
Criminal Justice
Institutions Sul Ross State University—Rio Grande College
Southwest Texas Junior College
Alma Mater Western Michigan University
New Mexico State University
Sul Ross State University
Martin Guevara Urbina (1972) is a Mexican-born American author, writer, researcher, professor, and speaker who, as a sociologist and criminologist, works on Latina and Latino issues in the United States.[1][2]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Academic career
2.1 Books
3 Faculty/Teaching Positions
4 References
5 External links
Biography
Urbina was born (February 25, 1972) in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico to Felipa Guevara and Salvador Urbina. At the age of seven, he was taken to the United States, spending his childhood in various places in Texas before settling in Ozona, Texas in 1982.[3][4]
In 1980, he entered the first grade in Carta Valley, Texas, moving to Ozona, Texas in 1982, during his fourth grade year; he later attended the Rocksprings, Texas High School, and eventually graduated from Ozona High School in 1991.[3][5]
He then attended Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas, transferring in 1993 to Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995. While at Sul Ross he studied under Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, considered the principal scholar of the Chicano Renaissance and founder of Chicano literary history with his book Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature (1971).[6] Influenced by Ortego, he pursued graduate studies at New Mexico State University, where he graduated with a Master’s degree (M.C.J.) in 1997.[6] At New Mexico, he started researching the sociological elements of the U.S. judicial system. In the summer of 1997, he began further graduate work at Western Michigan University, graduating with a Ph.D. in sociology in 2000. At Western Michigan, he began to examine the implications, utility, and significance of various social issues in research and publication, especially in the areas of race and ethnic relations, capital punishment, law and society, and social justice. While at Western Michigan, he began formulating his theory on the scope and nature of the death penalty, “the four-threat theory of death sentence outcomes,” as published in his first book, Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003).
Academic career
He then took a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he developed a research agenda with a focus on ethnicity, race, gender, and other social issues.[3]" [7]
Since 2000, he has analyzed ethnic, racial, gender, and socioeconomic disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system, as affected by national and international social control wars, like the war on crime, the war on narcotics (drugs), the war on immigrants, and more recently the war on terrorism.[8][9]
Urbina is author, coauthor, or editor of over 60 scholarly publications including several academic books. His research has been published in national and international academic journals, to include Justice Quarterly; Critical Criminology: An International Journal; and Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order.[5][10]
Books
Ethnicity and Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Critical Reader on the Latino Experience, with Sofía Espinoza Álvarez (2017). ISBN 978-0398091538
Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realities and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (2016). ISBN 978-0398090913
Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues, with Sofía Espinoza Álvarez (2015). ISBN 978-0-398-08144-7
Twenty-First Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-Racial America (2014). ISBN 978-0398080983
Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans: From Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization (2014). ISBN 978-0-398-08780-7
Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time (2012). ISBN 978-1593324452
Reviewed by - R. D. McCrie in Choice Dec 2012 [9]
Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography (2012). ISBN 978-0398088156]; ISBN 978-0398088163
Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2011). ISBN 978-1593324940
A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration (2008). ISBN 978-0398078119; ISBN 978-0398078126
Reviewed by Douglas L Yearwood in : Critical Criminology, 17, no. 3 (2009): 217-219 "
Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003). ISBN 978-1931202602
Faculty/Teaching Positions
Professor of Criminal Justice. Sul Ross State University/Rio Grande College. Fall 2013—Present.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. Sul Ross State University/Rio Grande College. Fall 2009—Summer 2013.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. Texas A&M University—Central Texas. Spring 2009—Summer 2009.
Professor of Sociology. Howard College. Fall 2006—Fall 2008.
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Fall 2005—Spring 2006.
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Fall 2000—Summer 2005.
Instructor of Sociology. Western Michigan University. Fall 1997–Spring 2000.
Instructor of Criminal Justice. New Mexico State University. Spring 1996–Summer 1997.
Dr. Martin Guevara Urbina, a native of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, is a Mexican American author, writer, researcher, professor, and speaker who, as a sociologist and criminologist, has engaged in an intensive academic research, publication, and discourse agenda designed to provide readers with evidence-based information of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States, with an emphasis on the exploration of the Latina and Latino experience.
Urbina is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Natural & Behavioral Sciences at Sul Ross State University--Rio Grande College, and an adjunct instructor of Sociology for Southwest Texas Junior College. Professor Urbina has taught at New Mexico State University, Western Michigan University, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Howard College, and Texas A&M University--Central Texas. Professor Urbina was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Teaching by Western Michigan University in 1999, and he was nominated for the 2002-2003 UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award by the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
Dr. Urbina is author, coauthor, or editor of over 60 scholarly publications on a wide range of topics, including several academic books: Immigration and the Law: Race, Citizenship, and Social Control Over Time (forthcoming); Ethnicity and Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Critical Reader on the Latino Experience (2017); Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realities and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (2016); Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues (2015); Twenty-First Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-Racial America (2014); Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans: From Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization (2014); Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time (2012); Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography (2012); A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration (2008); and Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003, 2011). Currently, Urbina is working on three new academic books: Making Sense of the American Juvenile Justice System; Latinos and the U.S. Legal System: Laws that Wound—A Call for a Balanced System; and The Color of Justice--The Price of Injustice: Racism in the Age of Colorblindness. His work has been published in national and international academic journals, to include Justice Quarterly; Critical Criminology; Social Justice; Latino Studies; and Criminal Law Bulletin.
Along with his academic endeavors, he is also writing other literary works: An Adventure in Time: A Journey Without Boundaries (fiction); Mi Vida: Between the Wind and the Rain, I Looked up and Wept (nonfiction); and Kylor's Adventure Through the Rainforest: A Journey of Courage and Faith (a children's book). Most recently, Dr. Urbina has also opted to venture into the world of poetry, with the illusion of writing a book of poems: Cincuenta Poemas de Amor Para el Alma y el Corazon: Fifty Love Poems for the Soul and the Heart.
During his spare time, Urbina loves evening walks. His biggest delight: la lluvia (rain)! For a complete list of Urbina's research and publications, visit his website at: http://faculty.sulross.edu/wp/murbina/. Contact Information: urbina.martin@yahoo.com (home); murbina@sulross.edu (work).
Dr Martin Urbina
Professor of Criminal Justice
RGC Natural & Behavioral Sciences
murbina@sulross.edu
(830) 703-4820
Office: Del Rio 201
Address: 205 Wildcat Dr., Del Rio, TX 78840
Web: http://faculty.sulross.edu/wp/murbina/
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Dr. Martin Guevara Urbina is author, coauthor, or editor of over 60 scholarly publications on a wide range of topics, including several academic books: Immigration and the Law: Race, Citizenship, and Social Control Over Time (forthcoming); Hispanics and the American Criminal Justice System: A Critical Reader on the Latino Experience (2017); Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realities and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (2016); Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues (2015); Twenty-First Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-Racial America (2014); Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans: From Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization (2014); Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time (2012); Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography (2012); A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration (2008); and Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003, 2011). Currently, Urbina is working on three new academic books: Making Sense of the American Juvenile Justice System; Latinos and the U.S. Legal System: Laws that Wound—A Call for a Balanced System; and The Color of Justice—The Price of Injustice: Racism in the Age of Colorblindness. His work has been published in national and international academic journals, to include Justice Quarterly; Critical Criminology; Social Justice; Latino Studies; and Criminal Law Bulletin. For a complete list of Urbina’s research and publications, please visit his website.
Dr. Martin Guevara Urbina
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Dr. Martin Guevara Urbina, a native of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, is a Mexican American author, writer, researcher, professor, and speaker who, as a sociologist and criminologist, has engaged in an intensive academic research, publication, and discourse agenda designed to provide readers (students, educators, practitioners, administrators, policymakers, and others vested in positive transformation, along with the general public) with evidence-based information of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States, with an emphasis on the exploration of the Latina/o experience and a focus on the ethnic realities of Mexican Americans. Ultimately, our mission is to provide a more inclusive and holistic story of the American experience, as we strive for equality, justice, respect, and human dignity!
Yo, Martin Guevara Urbina, orgullosamente Mexicano, nací en un petate, bajo un trono de lluvia, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México, which is located at the foot of the mountain, to Dolores Hidalgo, Cuna de la Independencia y Libertad!
Copyright © 2017 Dr. Martin Guevara Urbina. All rights reserved.
CV: http://srinfo.sulross.edu/cv/files/urbina_martin_murbina.pdf
Urbina, Martin Guevara. Latino access to higher education: ethnic realities and new directions for the twenty-first century
J.S. Hodes
53.10 (June 2016): p1522.
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Urbina, Martin Guevara. Latino access to higher education: ethnic realities and new directions for the twenty-first century, by Martin Guevara Urbina and Claudia Rodriguez Wright. Charles C. Thomas, 2015. 265p bibl Index ISBN 9780398090913 pbk, $43.95; ISBN 9780398090920 ebook, $43.95
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2015-31339 CIP
Urbina (Sul Ross State College) and Wright (Rio Grande College) have delivered an important book that documents the Latino experience in higher education, with each chapter providing significant information. As the population demographic in the US shifts, Latinos have emerged as the largest minority group. The authors assert that the focus of academic investigation, research, support, and discourse needs to expand to include the Latino voice and experience, especially of first-generation Latino students. There is an impressive amount of material in the book. The first three chapters provide an overview of the Latino student experience, including an analysis of historic trends and previous empirical studies. The book includes information from the authors' qualitative study in a higher education setting in Texas and gives voice to the student experience. Student narratives from the study are instructive and give readers a clear understanding of the barriers confronting Latino students. The concluding chapters present information for readers to reflect on and then formulate potential individual and structural interventions and solutions. The call for accountability in institutions of higher education is timely. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. All levels/ libraries.--J. S. Hodes, West Chester University
Hodes, J.S.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Hodes, J.S. "Urbina, Martin Guevara. Latino access to higher education: ethnic realities and new directions for the twenty-first century." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, June 2016, p. 1522. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA454942897&it=r&asid=8804d632d118823112bb3fd8bbfbf37a. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
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Urbina, Martin Guevara. Ethnic realities of Mexican Americans: from colonialism to 21st century globalization
L.H. Moreno
52.4 (Dec. 2014): p688.
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Urbina, Martin Guevara. Ethnic realities of Mexican Americans: from colonialism to 21st century globalization, by Martin Guevara Urbina, Joel E. Vela, and Juan O. Sanchez. Charles C. Thomas, 2014. 309p bibl index ISBN 9780398087807 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9780398087814 ebook, $49.95
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2013-38775 CIP
In addressing the ethnic realities of Mexican Americans in the US, Urbina (criminal justice, Sul Ross State Univ.-Rio Grande College), Vela (history, Sul Ross State Univ., Uvalde), and Sanchez examine the historical foundation of white supremacy (ideology) imbedded in US education, laws, and other institutions of power. The authors clearly illustrate how "the Mexican American experience has been neglected, minimized, or excluded from the pages of history" by redefining the time line of US history. Throughout the book, the authors provide examples of the conflicts, struggles, and battles that Mexican Americans face when challenging the dominant white social structure. The authors understand the importance of examining that history, but their overall goal is to provide an "alternative way of analyzing" the Mexican American experience by utilizing literature from many different academic fields, such as critical race/ethnic studies and postcolonial studies. The book is directed toward graduate students and scholars, but this reviewer believes it can be used for upper-division undergraduates. Furthermore, with its wide range of contexts, the book can serve as a starting point in reexamining the history of Mexican Americans in the US in any traditional history, political science, or sociology course. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--L. H. Moreno Bowling Green State University
Moreno, L.H.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Moreno, L.H. "Urbina, Martin Guevara. Ethnic realities of Mexican Americans: from colonialism to 21st century globalization." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Dec. 2014, p. 688. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA392069795&it=r&asid=3416abd9a021773b3e73e3d0ab88ebf0. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
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Urbina, Martin Guevara. Capital punishment in America: race and the death penalty over time
R.D. McCrie
50.4 (Dec. 2012): p767.
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Urbina, Martin Guevara. Capital punishment in America: race and the death penalty over time. LFB Scholarly, 2012. 367p bibl index afp ISBN 9781593324452 pbk, $42.95
Death penalty literature has been copious over the past half century. Yet Urbina (Sul Ross State Univ., Texas) offers a major new perspective on the issue, assessing the role of the Latino/a community in death penalty decisions and in major crime involvement generally. Conventional criminal justice research has neglected this group, although it represents 15 percent of the population. Among most scholars, it is a settled matter that death penalty decisions are disproportionately more frequent for African Americans and now, as demonstrated convincingly here, Latinos. But why? Death penalty advocates argue enthusiastically that disproportionality occurs because certain faces unequally commit crimes for which the death penalty exists. This misses critical facts, argues Urbina. The law and the criminal justice system, established and largely controlled by white males, labors to the disadvantage of minorities, who do not pass such laws. Comparatively poorer, they are less able to obtain a dream-team defense when charged with a crime. Furthermore, historical analysis explains unyielding past discrimination of minorities in understanding contemporary economic differences. Urbina provides extensive statistical, referential, and descriptive evidence to buttress his thesis. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Upper-division undergraduates and above.--R.D. McCrie, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
McCrie, R.D.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
McCrie, R.D. "Urbina, Martin Guevara. Capital punishment in America: race and the death penalty over time." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Dec. 2012, p. 767. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA311050133&it=r&asid=0e516f9bed01a35110d1efe49c93291e. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
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Hispanics in the U.S. criminal justice system; the new American demography
27.6 (Dec. 2012):
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Hispanics in the U.S. criminal justice system; the new American demography.
Ed. by Martin Guevara Urbina.
C.C. Thomas
2012
418$59.95 pages
$79.95
Hardcover
KF4757
Noting the dearth of information on the subject, Urbina (criminal justice, Sul Ross State U.-Rio Grande College) brings together a group of sociology, criminal justice, and public administration scholars from the US and Canada who present 17 studies on Hispanics in the US police, judicial, and penal systems. The studies focus particularly on how ideas of ethnicity underpin and legitimize practices and with integrated discussion of gender variation and major forces shaping public opinion. In the section on police, they discuss theories; the history and influence of ethnicity; how ethnicity impacts field practices; the relationship between Latinos and law enforcement; critical issues facing defendants, from detection to arrest; the history of immigration laws as in relation to Latinos, particularly Mexicans; and the dynamics of arresting ethnic minorities. They then detail the historical context of experiences in the judicial system, including the repressive practices against Mexicans in the Southwest that resulted in executions, vigilantism, and mass expulsions; repression against Mexicans by the dominant group in the US, resulting in the criminalization of Mexican identity; unreasonable searches and seizures; the underrepresentation and exclusion of Latinos from juries; the processing of defendants; critical issues facing prisoners; probation and parole; the historical legacy of executions; and life after prison. The volume is aimed at criminal justice and law enforcement professionals and students.
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"Hispanics in the U.S. criminal justice system; the new American demography." Reference & Research Book News, Dec. 2012. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA312255663&it=r&asid=94ada02505299b2a42b70b0c502620a9. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
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Capital punishment in America; race and the death penalty over time
27.5 (Oct. 2012):
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Capital punishment in America; race and the death penalty over time.
Urbina, Martin Guevara.
LFB Scholarly Publishing, LLC
2012
367 pages
$42.95
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Much of the focus in the existing literature on racial disparities in capital punishment in the United States has focused on differential treatment between African Americans and Caucasians, with limited attention given to the Latino experience, according to Urbina (criminal justice, Sul Ross State U.). Furthermore, the literature has generally been characterized by a binary approach to outcomes that neglects such possibilities as sentence declared unconstitutional, sentenced overturned, and conviction overturned and has also, when dealing with the Latino experience, failed to account for differential outcomes between different Latino ethnicities. He seeks to fill these gaps in his quantitative analysis of all death sentence outcome data for California, Florida, and Texas between 1975 and 1995 and qualitative analysis of Latinos executed in the United States since 1975. His analysis situates death penalty outcomes within histories of oppression and measures outcomes in relation to multiple political, social, and legal factors.
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"Capital punishment in America; race and the death penalty over time." Reference & Research Book News, Oct. 2012. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA304010498&it=r&asid=1f75084c9d47fd98af8fb02a53f8d632. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
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A comprehensive study of female offenders; life before, during, and after incarceration
24.1 (Feb. 2009):
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9780398078119
A comprehensive study of female offenders; life before, during, and after incarceration.
Urbina, Martin Guevara.
C.C. Thomas
2008
279 pages
$62.95
Hardcover
HV6046
The empirical differences between male and female prisoners in the United States penal system is examined by Urbina (sociology and criminal justice, Howard College), who focuses on how women offenders relate to the system, correctional officers, fellow inmates and society in general. Using data derived from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, the author tries to fill in the gaps in the current literature by explaining how female prisoners are subject to less consistency and more change than their male counterparts, and that many of these challenges remain undetected by existing academic research. The book concludes with a series of policy recommendations, including a call for more comprehensive studies on what happens to female inmates after they are released from prison.
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"A comprehensive study of female offenders; life before, during, and after incarceration." Reference & Research Book News, Feb. 2009. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA196720549&it=r&asid=60978537c5864db19ff3ffdb327a3138. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A196720549
A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration
Scott Hudson
34.1 (Spring 2009): p40.
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A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration, by Martin Guevara Urbina, Springfield, Ill., Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 2008, 279 pp.
Martin Guevara Urbina is to be commended for addressing important issues facing female offenders in A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders. He examines this population based on a comprehensive literature review and survey of female offenders in the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
Urbina attempts to address the complete experience of the female offender from the offender's perspective. Unfortunately, he spends an inordinate amount of time with the popular idea of female "pathways" to crime, e.g., female offenders ultimately are not entirely responsible for their crimes based on social ills or any number of "isms." He supports this premise with mostly dated research and does not offer alternative explanations for female criminal behavior. In this manner, A Comprehensive Study is not entirely comprehensive; rather, it becomes a comprehensive examination of the author's theory, which perpetuates the idea of offender as victim.
Much of Urbina's work is based on the Wisconsin offenders' responses to questionnaires. Urbina accepts these responses as the broad reality of female incarceration instead of limiting his conclusions and analyzing the responses as snapshots of offenders' perceptions to incarceration. Urbina could have offered a more balanced approach to his work by examining correctional policy and protocol in addition to the offender surveys. Because of the limited scope, his work ends up reflecting only the offender's perceptions of corrections.
Many correctional professionals, especially those employed in female facilities, may find the basic premise of Urbina's work offensive--that female facilities and those employed by them are abusive and controlling in nature. This negative stance is my major criticism of Urbina's work. He dismisses current attempts to improve the lot of the incarcerated female, and he is especially harsh in his assessment of security staff. His work does not consider that there are many dedicated, professional security staff who are not abusive to female offenders--and that they, in fact, may be some of the healthiest individuals the offender is exposed to.
Urbina also fails to consider how corrections' role of promoting public safety fits into his argument. By using a sociological approach/theory, Urbina implies that the primary responsibility of the correctional setting is the care and well-being of the incarcerated. The offender survey results become the measure upon which he bases his conclusions and recommendations. This is especially problematic as Urbina never mentions that he is surveying a population that is not always known for its truthfulness and ethical decision-making. By implying that the system is more responsible for the care and lifetime wellbeing of the offender than she is for herself, Urbina seems to discount the idea of personal responsibility.
I'm also concerned that Urbina's view of rehabilitation focuses too heavily on the need to change an external locus of control (i.e., society, corrections, family, etc.) rather than focusing on factors that incarcerated females can actually influence (i.e., behavior, attitudes, thinking). This approach implies that, unless larger societal factors are addressed, the incarcerated female is powerless to change her situation.
Urbina uses shock value in an attempt to empirically validate his hypothesis about who is responsible for individual behavior. This work is not likely to appeal to the average correctional employee as it lacks emphasis on personal responsibility.
Reviewed by Scott Hudson, Psy.D., LP, psychologist supervisor at a female correctional facility.
Hudson, Scott
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Hudson, Scott. "A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration." Corrections Compendium, Spring 2009, p. 40. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA198996024&it=r&asid=9bfb815a0466e86bf41964b31944ebaa. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
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Latino Police Officers in the United States
Carl Logan
(July 2015):
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2015 Midwest Book Review
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Latino Police Officers In The United States
Martin Guevara Urbina & Sofia Espinoza Alvarez
Charles C. Thomas, Publisher
2600 South First Street, Springfield, IL 62704
http://www.ccthomas.com
9780398081447, $43.95, 290pp, www.amazon.com
Synopsis: "Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues" seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the simultaneous interaction of pressing historical and contemporary forces shaping the Latino experience as well as police-minority relations to better understand the current state of policing and gain further insight into the future role of Latino police in American law enforcement across the country. Delineating the confines of policing a highly diverse and multicultural society in the twenty-first century, "Latino Police Officers in the United States" conjoins historical, theoretical, and empirical research-placing Latino policing within a broader law enforcement and community context. Major topics include the need for Latino police officers; employment of Latino officers by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; Chicano police officers working in the Latino community; Latino officers, policy, practice, and ethnic realities; Mexican American law enforcement; bridging the gaps, future research, and change in American institutions; policy recommendations toward a new police force; and the future of Latino officers in the American police. Additional issues highlighted include racial/ethnic profiling, police brutality, under-policing, and over-policing which challenge the quest for representation, equality, justice, and due process. Finally, "Latino Police Officers in the United States" demonstrates that the lack of knowledge on Latino police and the overall American police is not inevitable, and thus concludes with policy and research recommendations to help bridge this long-neglected void; ultimately, the creation of a new police force for the twenty-first century. The text comprising "Latino Police Officers in the United States" represents a most timely and essential tool for all levels of policing, law enforcement administrators, criminal justice educators, civic managers, criminologists, sociologists, and others vested in police reform.
Critique: Exceptionally well written, organized and presented by the team of Martin Guevara Urbina (Professor of Criminal Justice, Sul Ross State University--Rio Grande College) Sofia Espinoza Alvarez (Universidad de Leon, SanMiguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico), "Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues" fills a critical gap in law enforcement literature and is an impressively informed and informative contribution to today's on-going national dialogue about the role and responsibility of police, especially with respect to communities of ethnicity and color. "Latino Police Officers In The United States" should be considered a significant and core addition to professional and academic Law Enforcement reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.
Logan, Carl
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Logan, Carl. "Latino Police Officers in the United States." Reviewer's Bookwatch, July 2015. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA422327956&it=r&asid=5af5fb78f5702aedc3eae5d23c3dc2b5. Accessed 27 Mar. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A422327956