{"id":686,"date":"2025-07-25T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/?p=686"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:50:57","slug":"video-victor-rios-help-for-kids-the-education-system-ignores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/video-victor-rios-help-for-kids-the-education-system-ignores\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | &#8220;Help for Kids the Education System Ignores&#8221; (Victor Rios)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Victor Rios\u2019s TED Talk offers a compelling illustration of Hirschi\u2019s social bonds theory, which posits that strong ties to family, school, and community help prevent delinquency. In the talk, Rios shares his journey from gang involvement and incarceration to becoming a scholar and educator, highlighting how caring adults and supportive relationships enabled him to reconnect with society and thrive academically. His call to reframe \u201cat-risk\u201d youth as \u201cat-promise\u201d resonates with Hirschi\u2019s core elements of attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief as protective factors against deviant behavior. I use this talk in class to demonstrate how fostering strong social bonds can act as a powerful form of informal social control and a pathway to resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Help for kids the education system ignores | Victor Rios\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHOX3dlhhZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Rios\u2019s TED Talk offers a compelling illustration of Hirschi\u2019s social bonds theory, which posits that strong ties to family, school, and community help prevent delinquency. In the talk, Rios shares his journey from gang involvement and incarceration to becoming a scholar and educator, highlighting how caring adults and supportive relationships enabled him to reconnect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-control-theories","8":"category-video","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}