“In feeling excluded from a network of positive credentials, education, and employment opportunities, young people develop creative responses that provide them with the necessary tools to survive. Some develop practices that seem to embrace criminality as a means of contesting a system that sees them as criminals.” Victor M. Rios, “Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Adolescent Resistance.”

“In feeling excluded from a network of positive credentials, education, and employment opportunities, young people develop creative responses that provide them with the necessary tools to survive. Some develop practices that seem to embrace criminality as a means of contesting a system that sees them as criminals.”

Victor M. Rios, “Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Adolescent Resistance.”