Jonathan Ibarra

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: Building 47, Room 12N

Phone: 805-756-1808

E-mail: jibarr43@calpoly.edu

 

Areas of Interest

• Crime, law, and deviance
• Inequality and education
• School discipline and restorative/non-punitive practices
• Institutional neglect
• Latinx Youth
• Qualitative Methods

 

About

Jonathan Ibarra is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. As an ethnographer, he studies how marginalized youth navigate and are shaped by the institutions that govern their lives. Ibarra’s research examines how school discipline policies and practices influence the educational and social trajectories of marginalized youth, particularly Latino boys. His current work examines the durability of inequality within evolving systems of social control in institutions, like schools, that present themselves as becoming more inclusive.

Jonathan’s research has been supported by the American Sociological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program and the UC Office of the President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship, among others. His research on racial inequalities in policing and education has been published in the American Sociological Review and the Journal for Criminal Justice Education. He was also awarded the 2020 Article of the Year award from the American Sociological Association’s Latina/o Sociology section, along with his co-authors.

 

Courses Taught

• SOC 302: Criminology
• SOC 406: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Selected Publications

Garcia, Nichole M., Jonathan M. Ibarra, Rebeca Mireles-Rios, Victor M. Rios, and Katherine Maldonado. 2021. Advancing QuantCrit to Rethink the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Latinx and Black Youth. Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Rios, Victor M., Greg Prieto, and Jonathan M. Ibarra. 2020. Mano Suave-Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk. American Sociological Review.