Discussion of an Institutional Example: Criminal Justice System
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Rios discussed the importance of realizing how hypermasculinity effects the Justice system overall by affecting how the police acts and how the “criminals” act. This is also true in Latino communities. Machismo is a problem that leads to men being arrested and at times for post of Latino background to use the techniques that they use. A big part of machismo is standing ones ground. Showing them that no one bosses you around. This affects the possible times someone might get into an altercation with a cop.
The article Young Latino Males; an American Dilemma goes into depth about the pipeline of ending up in the criminal justice system and machismo. Latino men see as education as an unnecessary thing and so they drop out, they still feel the need to support their family, because that is the man’s job, so they end up looking for a job and a lot of them end up in criminal activities.
source: http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/latinomales/machismo.html