Ph.D. 2013, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
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 ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, 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.
Patrick Lopez-Aguado is from Mountain View, CA, and he went to Loyola Marymount University for his undergraduate education. He joined the Department of Sociology at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ in 2013. His hobbies include traveling, horror movies, and his cactus/succulent garden.