Nicolas Gutierrez III
@nicolasgutierrez.bsky.social
PhD candidate at USC Sociology | homelessness + criminalization + policing + mutual aid | UC Irvine (Criminology, Law and Society, BA) + SDSU (Criminal Justice & Criminology, MS) alumnus https://nicolasgutierreziii.com/
🚨 FIRST FIRST-AUTHORED PUB! 🚨 In LA, mutual aid groups supporting unhoused neighbors during encampment sweeps face arrests, citations, etc. We show how these helpers experience and navigate their own criminalization. @uscsociology.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14624745261428582
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“They really target people for helping other people”: The criminalization of mutual aid during encampment sweeps in Los Angeles, CA journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 FIRST FIRST-AUTHORED PUB! 🚨 In LA, mutual aid groups supporting unhoused neighbors during encampment sweeps face arrests, citations, etc. We show how these helpers experience and navigate their own criminalization. @uscsociology.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14624745261428582
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Great new piece by three grad students who are part of @uscsociology.bsky.social and @eri-usc.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2025/09/...
DUI to Deportation: What H.R. 875 Could Mean for Immigrant Communities - USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)
Data and Analysis to Power Social Change
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Read the latest @jaacapjournals.bsky.social commentary on "systems involvement as a structural determinant of health" by my partner and her @uclahealth.org colleagues! www.jaacap.org/article/S089...
Reimagining Systems Involvement as a Structural Determinant of Health
The health and well-being of children and adolescents are deeply shaped by their social environments. Systems of care, including the child welfare system (CWS) and the juvenile legal system (JLS), pla...
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Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move. Read the story: tradeoffs.org/2025/11/20/h... Published in partnership with @themarshallproject.org.
Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.
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Check out what I’ve been up to this semester with the @captivemoneylab.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/captivem...
Lab Updates: A Developing Study from the Lab seeks to Explore the Lived Experiences of Those Charged Pay-to-Stay Fees
Nicolas Gutierrez III is a research assistant with Captive Money Lab, developing and conducting a nationwide study with Dr. Brittany Friedman.
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Thank you, @eri-usc.bsky.social & @uscsociology.bsky.social, for having us at the ERI Fall Faculty & Graduate Student Lunch and Learn! 👨🏻🏫
USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) @eri-usc.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 Under H.R. 875, even a DUI arrest—not a conviction—could trigger deportation. Framed as “public safety,” the bill would expand racialized policing, detention, and family separation, deepening the harms immigrant communities already face. 1/2
Check out my latest piece on the ERI Blog! “By linking deportation to DUIs, H.R. 875 would widen the net of immigration enforcement, extending it through traffic stops and sobriety checkpoints conducted by local officers.” @eri-usc.bsky.social
USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) @eri-usc.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 Under H.R. 875, even a DUI arrest—not a conviction—could trigger deportation. Framed as “public safety,” the bill would expand racialized policing, detention, and family separation, deepening the harms immigrant communities already face. 1/2
🚨 Under H.R. 875, even a DUI arrest—not a conviction—could trigger deportation. Framed as “public safety,” the bill would expand racialized policing, detention, and family separation, deepening the harms immigrant communities already face. 1/2
DUI to Deportation: What H.R. 875 Could Mean for Immigrant Communities - USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)
Data and Analysis to Power Social Change
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I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.
Can people who lost their belongings in "sweeps" of homeless encampments recover them? Some cities have storage programs, but as one advocate says, they offer only an “illusion of compassion.” Here's what we found ⬇️
Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.
Storage programs are meant to protect people’s property rights and allow them to reclaim their possessions. But they rarely accomplish either objective, according to a ProPublica investigation of citi...
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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2y agoProPublica spoke with 135 people who had experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal: propub.li/4fW8YIT
