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Luis Barrios, Father

Pastor; Assistant Professor; Director and Principal Investigator
St. Romero of the Americas Church; John Jay College of Criminal Justice; PALENQUE

Reverend Luis Barrios, PHD, STM, is an assistant clergy of the City University of New York (CUNY), at John Jay College in the Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Department. He is a professor of Psychology and Ethnic Studies; he is also a founder and director of the Street Organizations Project, where he has researched resistance sub-cultures. Luis is also an Episcopal Reverend and carries out his work with La Iglesia San Romero De Las Americas. In addition, he is Director and Principal Investigator of PALENQUE: Family Life Center, John Jay College's After School Youth Violence Prevention Program. Luis has published several articles on social resistance, multicultural relations, and gangs and is the co-editor (with Louis Kontos and David Brotherton) of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives (Columbia University Press in Spring 2003) and co-author, with David C. Brotherton, of The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang (Columbia University Press, January 2004). He is also author of Josconiando, an analysis of the Puerto Rican movement and the issue of colonialism in Puerto Rico from a theological perspective. For more information on publications by Rev. Luis Barrios, or to purchase his books online, please go to: [Josconiando](http://prolibertadweb.tripod.com/page18.html) [Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231121407.HTM) [The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231114184.HTM) ##Excerpts from reviews of Luis Barrios's writing: "Brotherton and Barrios have raised the bar on street gang research. Their attentiveness to history, social context, and patterns of social change within gangs over time combine the best of sociological and anthropological methods. While criminologists will benefit from this extraordinary book, it should be required reading for all students of American cities." -Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Columbia University "An empirical challenge and theoretical wake-up call to an all-but-moribund criminology. Classic insider sociology." -John M. Hagedorn, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Criminal Justice

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