In his book, Punished, Victor Rios talks about how in low-income Black and Latino boys' social world, the normal misbehavior of adolescence such as fighting is treated as serious crime in need of criminal justice intervention. He calls this environment ______.
A) a powder keg
B) the consequence of poverty
C) a biased social system
D) the youth control complex

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Rios refers to this environment as the "youth control complex," a term he uses to describe the systematic way in which everyday behaviors of young people, particularly those from marginalized communities, are criminalized.

In His Book, Punished, Victor Rios Talks About How in Low-Income