Mike Tapia

Mike Tapia is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University. His teaching and research interests include street crimes, race and crime, juvenile justice, and crime theory. He has published work on risk factors in juvenile arrest, Latino arrest risk in the Midwest and the U.S., and Latino gang migration to the Midwest. His latest works examine Chicano street and prison gang organization in historical perspective. Mike has authored The Barrio Gangs of San Antonio 1915-2015 published by Texas Christian University Press (2017) and Gangs of the El Paso-Juarez Borderland Region published by University of New Mexico Press (2019).