
- Professor, Psychology, Social Welfare
Research Interests
- Latin American & Latino/os Studies; Qualitative-Participatory Action Research; Street and Prison Gangs; Liberation & Cultural Theology
Education
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Carlos Albizu University
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Affiliated Campus(es)
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Dr. Barrios is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional-CCTP & Mediator & Conflict Resolution: New York State ID7631, and a professor of Latinx psychology; Latin American studies; ethnic studies; qualitative research and methodology; and cultural criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is a Consultant to the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM).
Dr. Barrios is the co-editor with Louis Kontos and David C. Brotherton of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspective (2003-Columbia University); co-author with David C. Brotherton of Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang (2004-Columbia University); and co-editor with Dr. Mauro Cerbino of Otras naciones: Jóvenes, transnacionalismo y exclusión. Quito: Ecuador: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Dr. Barrios is also the author of Josconiando: Dimensiones Sociales y políticas de la espiritualidad (2000-Editorial Aguiar), Pitirreando: De la desesperanza a la esperanza (2004-Editorial Edil) and Coquiando: Meditaciones subversivas para un mundo mejor (2008-Editorial Búho).
Current research projects include work on people deported from the USA with particular focus on psychosocial trauma; the transnationalization of street gangs; and the socio-historical and cultural contemporary perspectives of life in the Dominican-Haitian Border and prison trauma.

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Affiliated Campus(es)
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice