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About Patrick Lopez-Aguado

Patrick Lopez-Aguado's research interests include race and incarceration, juvenile justice, youth and street cultures, and urban ethnography.  He is the author of Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity, which examines how the racial segregation institutionalized in California’s prison system impacts the violence and policing that young people experience in high-incarceration neighborhoods. His work has also been published in Social Problems, Theoretical Criminology, Sociology Compass, and Ethnography.

At Santa Clara, he teaches Principles of Sociology, Sociology of the Criminal Justice System, and Sociology of Deviance, Sociology of Crime, Gender and Justice, and Sociology of Law.

Positions

2019 - Present Associate Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Sociology
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2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Sociology
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Education

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2013 Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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2008 M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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2005 B.A. in Sociology, Loyola Marymount University
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Recent Works (5)