Luis Gascon
Biography
My name is Daniel Gascón. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Research Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am the lead author of the 2019 book, The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles, and the lead author of the 2024 book, Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives. I have published in journals such as Critical Sociology, Social Justice, Social Problems and Race & Justice. Currently, I teach courses in criminology and criminal justice, and qualitative methodology.
Area of Expertise
- Police & Policing
- Juvenile Delinquency Civil & Human Rights
- Marx & Marxism
- Chicana/o/x Studies
- Black Studies
- Urban Ethnography
Degrees
PhD, Criminology, Law & Society with a Critical Theory emphasis, University of California, Irvine
Professional Publications & Contributions
Books:
- Gascón, D., Mejia-Mesinas, A., Perez, X., Sanabria, J., and Sclofsky, S. (2024). Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Postcolonial and Southern Perspectives. Palgrave-MacMillan.
- Gascón, D. & Roussell, A. (2019). The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angelesa>. New York University Press.
Book Chapters:
- Gascón, D., Mejia-Mesinas, A., Perez, X., Sanabria, J., and Sclofsky, S. (2024). Introduction: Policing and State Crime: A View from the South. In Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Postcolonial and Southern Perspectives. Palgrave-MacMillan.
- Gascón, D., Mejia-Mesinas, A., Perez, X., Sanabria, J., and Sclofsky, S. (2024). Conclusion: Our South is North. In Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Postcolonial and Southern Perspectives. Palgrave-MacMillan.
- Gascón, D., Seri, G., and Wall, T. (2024). Chapter 14: Defining the State and Its Crimes. In Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Postcolonial and Southern Perspectives. Palgrave-MacMillan.
- Gascón, D. and Barrera, N. (2024). Chapter 15: Observing the State. In Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Postcolonial and Southern Perspectives. Palgrave-MacMillan.
- Gascón, D., Goltz, J., Sanabria, J. and McQuade, B. (2024). Chapter 16: State Policy from Now On. In Policing and State Crime in the Americas: Postcolonial and Southern Perspectives. Palgrave-MacMillan.
- Gascón, D. (2023). Structural Strain, Intersectionality, and Mass Murder: A Case Study of the Isla Vista Shooting. In All American Massacre: The Tragic Role of American Culture and Society in Mass Shootings, edited by Madfis, E. and Lankford, A. New York: New York University Press.
- Gascón, L.D. & Kaufman, J.C. (2010). “Both sides of the coin? Personality, deviance and creative behavior.” In D. Cropley, A. Cropley, J. Kaufman, M. Runco (Eds.), The Dark Side of Creativity (pp. 235-254). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Articles:
- Gascón, D. (2023). The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles. Critical Sociology, 0(0).
- Gascón, D. (2023). Uncomfortable Kinship: An Ethnography on the Professional World of Gang Experts and Street Outreach Workers in South Los Angeles. Social Justice, Vol. 49 (1): 81-110.
- Gascón, D. & Roussell, A. (2018). An Exercise in Failure: Punishing At-Risk Youth & Families in a South Los Angeles Boot Camp Program. Race & Justice, Vol. 8 (3): 270 297.
- Roussell, A., & Gascón, D. (2014). “Defining ‘policeability’: Cooperation, control, and resistance in South Los Angeles community police meetings.” Social Problems, Vol. 6 (2): 237-258.
Book Review:
- Gascón, L.D. (2019) "Surviving Gangs, Violence and Racism in Cape Town: Ghetto
- Chameleons by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard," American Journal of Sociology 125,
- no. 3: 881-883.