
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 Santa Clara, 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 SCU in 2013. His hobbies include traveling, horror movies, and his cactus/succulent garden.
Publications
Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
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Patrick Lopez-Aguado in the News
November 26, 2021
Patrick Lopez-Aguado is quoted in NPR.
January 15, 2020
Patrick Lopez-Aguado wrote an op-ed that ran in the East Bay Times and The Mercury News about abolishing sentence enhancements for presumed gang members.
November 2019
Patrick Lopez-Aguado was interviewed on KCSB about the recent changes in the criminal justice system in California.