Gringo injustice: insider perspectives on police, gangs, and law

Part I: State-sanctioned violence. A history of anti-Latino state-sanctioned violence : executions, lynchings, and hate crimes / Maritza Pérez

Officer-involved shootings of Latinos : moving beyond the Black/white binary / Robert J. Durán

Interest-convergence theory and police use of deadly force on Latinos : a case study of three shootings / Roberto Rivera

Killing Ismael Mena : "the SWAT teams feared for their lives ..." / Ernesto Vigil

Part II: Youth control complex. Street Terrorism and Enforcement Act : a new chapter on the war on gangs / Alfredo Mirandé

Latino street gangs, La EME, and the short corridor collective / Richard A. Alvarado

"Captives while free" : surveillance of Chicana/o youth in a San Diego barrio / José S. Plascencia-Castillo

Hyper-criminalization : gang-affiliated Chicana teen mothers navigating third spaces / Katherine L. Maldonado

Part III: Race, citizenship, and the law. "A class apart" : the exclusion of Latinas/os from grand and petit juries / Alfredo Mirandé

Whiteness, Mexican appearance and the Fourth Amendment / Alfredo Mirandé.