David is professor of sociology and criminal justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and director of the social change and transgressive studies project at John Jay College. His critical ethnographic research on social exclusion and social resistance spans more than two decades. In 2011, he was named Critical Criminologist of the Year and in 2015 he received the Praxis Award from the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. David's research projects include juvenile justice reform in Washington D.C., gang legalization in Ecuador, and the deportation regime in New York City. David has received grants from public and private sources and is the editor of the "Studies in Transgression" book series at Temple University Press. His books include: Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment..., edited with Phil Kretsedemas (Columbia 2017), Las Pandillas Como Movimiento Social..., with Luis Barrios (University of Central America Press 2016), Youth Street Gangs: A Critical Perspective (Routledge 2015), Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and their Stories of Exile, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2011), and The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street... with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2004). David received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1992 from the University of California, Santa Barbara.